Sorry but plotting a relative number (energy production) over an absolute number (GDP) makes no sense. Obviously, the larger a country the larger its GDP, but relative share of renewables stays the same. What you are showing here is that the biggest economies in the world usually have less renewables – coincidentally because these are industrialized countries. I would redo the graph with share of renewables against GDP per capita.
Also numbers are off, Germany should be around 57% renewables??
Doesn`t Germany get over 50% of the Electricity from renewable sources ?
Edit: Didn`t realize we were looking at data from 20 years ago.
Instead of GDP it is worth to take total energy consumption per year. Obviously, renewable sources cannot yield too much
1. Electricity != Energy. The difference is incredibly important in this context. 2. Aggregating data over 20 years is not enormously helpful I don’t think. And how is the percentage calculated and aggregated? 3. No indication whatsoever what the size of each dot represents. I guess it’s just GDP? 4. That line is really a stretch
Where’s the UK? As far as I know, more than 40% of the UK’s energy output comes from renewables but I can’t see any corresponding dot on the chart.
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Visualization generated in Tableau. Data sourced from the ‘World Sustainability Dataset’ on Kaggle: [https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/truecue/worldsustainabilitydataset/data?select=WorldSustainabilityDataset.csv](https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/truecue/worldsustainabilitydataset/data?select=WorldSustainabilityDataset.csv)
Sorry but plotting a relative number (energy production) over an absolute number (GDP) makes no sense. Obviously, the larger a country the larger its GDP, but relative share of renewables stays the same. What you are showing here is that the biggest economies in the world usually have less renewables – coincidentally because these are industrialized countries. I would redo the graph with share of renewables against GDP per capita.
Also numbers are off, Germany should be around 57% renewables??
Doesn`t Germany get over 50% of the Electricity from renewable sources ?
Edit: Didn`t realize we were looking at data from 20 years ago.
Instead of GDP it is worth to take total energy consumption per year. Obviously, renewable sources cannot yield too much
1. Electricity != Energy. The difference is incredibly important in this context.
2. Aggregating data over 20 years is not enormously helpful I don’t think. And how is the percentage calculated and aggregated?
3. No indication whatsoever what the size of each dot represents. I guess it’s just GDP?
4. That line is really a stretch
Where’s the UK? As far as I know, more than 40% of the UK’s energy output comes from renewables but I can’t see any corresponding dot on the chart.