Number of renewable energy jobs in Latin America 2021, by country

Published by Lucía Fernández, Jan 26, 2023
Brazil was by far the Latin American country with the highest number of jobs in the renewable energy industry in 2021. That year, the South American country employed over 1.27 million workers in the sector. Colombia came in second in the region, with around 251 thousand jobs in the renewables segment.

Leading countries in number of renewable energy jobs in Latin America in 2021 (in 1,000s)

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Release date

September 2022

Region

LAC

Survey time period

2021

Special properties

Including direct and indirect jobs; including jobs in the hydropower segment

Supplementary notes

The release date provided in this statistic is the date of publication of IRENA's latest annual report Renewable Energy and Jobs - Annual Review 2022.

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