Global number of renewable energy-related jobs by select country

In 2022, there were more than 13.7 million direct and indirect renewable energy-related jobs worldwide. Of this amount, some 5.5 million jobs were located in China, making it the country with the highest number of renewable energy-related jobs.

Estimated number of direct and indirect renewable energy-related jobs worldwide in 2022, by select country (in 1,000s)

Characteristic	Number of jobs in thousands
China	5,548
European Union**	1,534
Brazil	1,400
United States*	994
India	988
Global***	13,720

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September 2023

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Worldwide

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2022

Supplementary notes

*Includes 122,481 jobs in technologies not separately broken down in the table, such as solar heating and cooling, geothermal heat, heat pumps and others. Solar heating and cooling is also included (but not reported separately) in the Solar Foundation’s estimate on all solar technologies, so there is effectively a small amount of double counting.
**Figures include an estimate of 200,000 indirect jobs in equipment manufacturing.
***Figures include an estimate of 27,000 jobs in waste to energy and some 240,000 jobs in heat pumps. (of which 118,000 jobs are in China, 116,000 in the EU, and 6,500 jobs in the U.S.)

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