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Africa
Country
Gross Theoretical Technically feasible

hydropower
hydropower
potential
potential
(GWh/year)
(GWh/year)
Economically
feasible
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
% prod'n by
Hydro gen'n in 2008 hydro in 2008
Installed
or avarage/most
or most recent
hydrocapacity (MW) recent (GWh/year)
(average)
Hydro capacity
under
construction
(MW)
Planned hydro capacity

(MW)
Africa
Algeria
12,000
Angola
Benin
4,000
278
560
2.7
n/a
790
3,147
77.7
>80
1,164-5,514
498
<1
172
48
250
n/a
150,000
1,676
Botswana
>65,000
Burkina Faso
>600
1,316
215
32
111
22
>74.5
Burundi
6,000
1,500
600
50
208
100
177
294,000
115,000
105,000
729
3,847
90
1,819
Cameroon
Cape Verde Islands
n/a
Central African Rep
>2500
19
130
(80)
30-137
Chad
150
Comoros
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
~10,000
89
394
(99)
120
0-1621
Congo, Rep.Of
>50,000
Source: Hydropower and Dams, World Atlas, 2009
Africa
Country
Africa
DRC (Dem. Rep. Congo)
Cote d'Ivoire
Egypt
Gross
Theoretical
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
1,397,000 100,000 MW
46,000
12,400
>50,000
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Ethiopia
Gabon
Gambia, The
Ghana
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Kenya
Technically
feasible
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
Economically
feasible
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
145,000
~50,000
n/a
n/a
~650,000
>80,000
>260,000
80,000
n/a
162,000
32,500
% prod'n by
Hydro capacity
under
or avarage/most or most recent construction
recent (GWh/year)
(average)
(MW)
Installed
hydrocapacity
(MW)

(MW)
2,410
606
2,842
7,303
1,797
15,510
100
33
12.6
>162
n/a
0
3,690-43,000
277
48
1
0
2
0
0
0
0
0
n/a
0
669
170
0
2,700
893
0
>95
67
0
1,277
0
0
4,170-10,000
n/a
n/a
1,280
123
0
5,619
519
0
76
37.8
0
400
n/a
n/a
425
>240
n/a
26,000
10,600
19,300
n/a
>24,300
1422MW
747
3,000
63
41
>160
450MW
11,000
n/a
76
n/a
0
~200
n/a
0
~100
n/a
0
0
0
0
~26
>100
0
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
18,200
300
Africa
Country
Africa
Madagascar
Gross
Theoretical
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
321,000
Malawi
Mali
Mauritania
Mauritius
Morocco
Mozambique
Namibia
Niger
Nigeria
Reunion
Rowanda
Sao Tome& Principe
Senegal
Seychelles
>103,400
42,750
Technically
feasible
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
180,000
Economically
feasible
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
49,000
Installed
hydrocapacity
(MW)
Hydro gen'n in
% prod'n by Hydro capacity
2008 or
hydro in 2008
under
avarage/most
or most recent construction Planned hydro capacity
recent (GWh/year)
(average)
(MW)
(MW)
124
700
63.4
29
158-708
>6,000
~5,000
~300
155
1,100
>500
99
(60)
n/a
140
429
>100
n/a
30
120
n/a
n/a
~150
~100
59
84
5,203
>37,647
~9,000
>1,300
32,450
n/a
400MW
n/a
4,250
n/a
4,000
~31,717
~1,265
2,179
249
0
1,938
121
55
6
66
0
1,318
14,710
1,171
0
7,645
633
130
10
293
0
6.6
~100
48
0
35.4
24.9
59
58
16
0
~40
0
90
0
3,300
20
0
4
0
0
84-384
2,870-5,000
408-608
125
950-11,500
0
120-209
26
123
0
29,800
2,050
n/a
Africa
Country

Economically
% prod'n by
hydropower
hydropower
feasible hydropower
Hydro gen'n in 2008 hydro in 2008 or
potential
potential
potential
Installed
or avarage/most
most recent
(GWh/year)
(GWh/year)
(GWh/year)
(average)
Hydro capacity
under
construction
(MW)

(MW)
Africa
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
73,000
Sudan
1,200MW
~18
12
50
85-310
600
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
14,000
4700
687
2,734
1.2
120
n/a
19,000
575
4,333
55
>1,200
2,000-3,600
300
~60
124
n/a
20
Swaziland
3,800
560
Tanzania
39,450
20,000
561
2,098
61
1,868
1,700
>66
~200
n/a
48
n/a
Togo
Tunisia
1,000
250
160
~70
160
n/a
>20
Uganda
n/a
>12500
~395.5
1,391
67.9
337
~1,000
Zambia
6,000 MW
~20,000
1,672
11,000
99
570
1,141-4,400
754
5,521
(50)
400-3,400
22,304
102,107
>7,961
24,703-97,624
Zimbabwe
Africa Total
17,500
>2,385,221
>1,161,467
>773,996
Asia
Country

Economically
% prod'n by
hydropower
hydropower
feasible hydropower
potential
potential
potential
Installed
or avarage/most
most recent
(GWh/year)
(GWh/year)
(GWh/year)
(average)
Hydro capacity
under
construction
(MW)

(MW)
Asia
Afghanistan
394,470
25,000MW
~400
~1,000
n/a
~200
~500
Armenia
21,800
~6,500
3,500
~1,000
500
30.6
146
>134.2
Azerbaijan
43,500
16,000
7,000
~1,020
3,000
13.5
n/a
~1,030
1,500
1,300
230
1,200
n/a
0-315
>263,000
>99,200
16,000MW
1,488
7,134
~100
1,200
10,376
87,660
34,400
1500MW
12
55
7.4
193
704-1,194
6,083,000
2,474,000
1,753,000
~171,000
684,000
16.4
~80,000
49,000-65,000
Chinese Taipei(Taiwan)
102,731
20,149
15,713
1,571
4,283
2.1
400
140-184
Georgia
135,800
70,000
41,000
2,635
7,100
85.2
3,512-22,000
~40,000
~123,570
17.5
~15000
~35,000
Bangladesh
Bhutan
Cambodia
China
India
Indonesia
188,700 MW
2,147,000
401,646
~40,000
4,519
10,760
15
541
859-1,403
Iran
179,000
50,000
7,672
17,900
4,213
~17,000
Iraq
90,000
67,000
2,273
n/a
13
~30
800-5,000
30
0.1
Israel
50
Asia
Country

hydropower
hydropower
potential
potential
(GWh/year)
(GWh/year)
Economically
feasible
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
% prod'n by
Hydro capacity
under
Installed
or avarage/most
most recent
construction
(average)
(MW)

(MW)
Asia
Japan
717,600
Jordan
Kazakhstan
170,000
Korea,DPR (North)
Korea, Rep (South)
135,750
21,824
92,114
4.9
661
n/a
500MW
12
62
0.45
n/a
2,260
7,437
9.3
>350
>78
~4,780
13,000
67
n/a
n/a
62,000
~28,500
n/a
51,777
26,389
18,603
1,584
3,473
<1.3
n/a
n/a
Kyrghyzstan
162,500
99,200
55,200
2,910
10,604
91.3
240
2,732-4,764
Laos
232,500
18,000 MW
673
3,777
98
2,655
2,706-13,406
n/a
280
750
76
n/a
Lebanon
Malaysia
230,000
123,000
~1,910
4,950
9.7
3,344
>628
Mongolia
57,000
~2,600MW
28
>4.9
0.14
120
Myanmar
>348,000
39,720 MW
1541
7830
73.8
~1,600
12,710-32,000
732,840
44,000 MW
660
2,410
92
>60
2,230-25,000
n/a
204,000
6,474
28,667
33.4
>1,600
~17,000
Nepal
Oman
Pakistan
>475,000
14,742
Asia
Country
Gross
Theoretical
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
Technically
feasible
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
Economically
feasible
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
Hydro gen'n in
% prod'n by Hydro capacity
2008 or
hydro in 2008
under
avarage/most
or most recent construction Planned hydro capacity
recent (GWh/year)
(average)
(MW)
(MW)
Installed
hydrocapacity
(MW)
Asia
Philippines, The
47,459
20,334
18,184
2,450
6,432
18.6
>60
>593
Saudi Arabia
n/a
Singapore
n/a
~1,300
3,947
40
~200
~262-472
1,505
~8000
15
n/a
n/a
~26,3500
5,030
17,350
96
168
1,190-8,790
16,292
>15,186
2,924
5,314
4.7
92
92.6-281
n/a
n/a
0.5
28
Sri Lanka
8,250
Syria
Tadjikistan
Thailand
7,255
n/a
527,000
17,746
Timor Leste
Turkmenistan
23,900
4,800
1,700
0.03
Uzbekistan
88,000
27,400
15,000
1,710
6,396
13.8
341
1,762
300,000
123,000
100,000
5,500
24,000
20
7,534
~14,066
>16,990,783
5,785,657
3,553,627
299,182
1,107,055
>120,904
175,255-278,127
Vietnam
Asia Total
Australia/Oceania
Country

hydropower
hydropower
potential
potential
(GWh/year)
(GWh/year)
Economically
feasible
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
% prod'n by
Installed
or avarage/most
or most recent
(average)
Hydro capacity
under
construction
(MW)

(MW)
Australia/Oceania
Australia
265,000
Cook Islands
Fiji
New Zealand
7,826
17,000
6.1
140
n/a
n/a
n/a
84.8
421
50
n/a
>40
300
250
47
164
(42.5)
>10
1,690
623
341
78
448
23.9
18
205,000
~77,000
5,346
23,283
53.5
~300-430
n/a
~10
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Palau/Belau
Papua New Guinea
30,000
1,089
French Poynesia
New Caledonia
n/a
175,320
222
513
64.5
42
307-2,281
n/a
12
51
43
n/a
>1,000
~1
<1
20
Tuvalu
n/a
Vanuatu
n/a
9.6
13,626
41,886
182
696-2,800
Samoa (Western)
Solomon Islands
Australia/Oceania Total
654,177
15,000MW
185,012
4200MW
88,701
Europe
Country
Gross
Theoretical
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
Technically feasible
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
Economically
feasible
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
% prod'n by
or avarage/most or most recent
recent (GWh/year)
(average)
Installed
hydrocapacity
(MW)
Hydro capacity
under
construction
(MW)

(MW)
Europe
Albania
40,000
15,000
11,750
1,450
5,370
98
n/a
~2,000
Austria
90,000
56,000
~53200
~12,009
35,211
59.5
>100
>262
Belarus
7,500
3,000
1,300
13
~50
0.15
34
83-176
Belgium
~600
n/a
400
107
359
1.5
n/a
Bosnia-Herzogovina
70,128
24,000
19,000
Bulgaria
19,810
14,800
Croatia
20,000
12,000
Cyprus
Czech Rep
13,100
2,380
6,200
48.4
>3.8
~570
~1,434
4,610
>91
1,520-2,391
2,076
5,023
43.5
41
>670
23,500
<2
~0
3,380
1,029
2,090
3.1
n/a
n/a
21
0.1
48
>1.3
1.5-10
Denmark
~120
n/a
Estonia
1,500
375
Faeroe Islands
10,500
~70
~250
~150
31
96
35
n/a
Finland
22,645
16,915
16,024
3,049
13,971
22.8
21
>53
France
~200,000
n/a
~98,000
25,400
68,600
12.4
>60
>418
Europe
Country
Gross
Theoretical
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
Economically
feasible
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
Installed
hydrocapacity
(MW)
% prod'n by
recent (GWh/year)
(average)
Hydro capacity
under
construction
(MW)

(MW)
Europe
Germany
Greece
Greenland
120,000
24,700
~20,000
4,310
16,975
3.5
>113
>20
80,000
20,000
15,000
3,243
2,254
4.4
>484
>160
~550,000
~17,500
56
202
40
15
>22.5
Hungary
7,446
4,590
54
~213
0.54
n/a
Iceland
18,400
64,000
40,000
1,879
12,427
75.5
80
362-402
1,400
1,180
950
249
725
n/a
n/a
190,000
60,000
50,000
~20,000
45,511
14.3
n/a
2,100
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
n/a
Irish Republic
Italy
Kosovo
n/a
Latvia
7,200
4,000
3,900
~1,500
2,600
60
n/a
n/a
Lithuania
6,034
2,464
1,295
120
451
5-105
175
140
137
40
111
3.1
Macedonia (FYR of)
8,863
5,500
528
1,220
16
36
809
Moldova
2,000
64
318
(7)
n/a
n/a
Luxembourg
Montenegro
Netherlands
Norway
~1,000
658
~2,000
~57
n/a
681-741
11,396
<110MW
10,846
~130
38
110
0.1
n/a
600,000
n/a
205,700
29,490
122,700
~99
587
3,706
Europe
Country
Gross
Theoretical
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
Economically
feasible
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
Installed
hydrocapacity
(MW)
% prod'n by
Hydro capacity
under
or avarage/most or most recent construction
recent (GWh/year)
(average)
(MW)

(MW)
Europe
Poland
25,000
12,000
7,000
839
2,042
1.5
~20
>406
Portugal
32,150
24,500
19,800
4,959
12,000
15.4
>217
1,100-2,200
Romania
70,000
40,000
6,422
17,105
25.8
>659
1,206
Russia
2,295,000
1,670,000
~49,700
~180,000
(19)
>7,000
9,000-60,000
Serbia
27,300
17,600
2,820
10,330
28.2
>140
1,252-1,900
Slovakia
10,000
>6607
~6,000
1,776
4,280
12.2
~140
Slovenia
12,500
8,800
6,125
846
3,120
21
>82
>700
852,000
Spain
162,000
61000
37,000
18,559
22,888
7.5
>264
n/a
Sweden
200,000
130,000
90,000
16,200
68,400
46.8
>10
n/a
~125,000
41,000
13,355
37,590
56.1
>146
n/a
Turkey
433,000
216,000
140,000
13,700
48,000
25.4
8,600
22,700
Ukraine
44,700
~21,500
~16,500
4,552
>12,185
5.9
n/a
>160
1,539
4,000
~0.8
n/a
n/a
246,491
771,408
>18,812
48,855-101,676
Switzerland
United Kingdom
Europe Total
~4000MW
5,380,005
2,885,887
1,772,478
North & Central America
Country

hydropower
hydropower
potential
potential
(GWh/year)
(GWh/year)
Economically
feasible
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
% prod'n by
Installed
or avarage/most
or most recent
(average)
Hydro capacity
under
construction
(MW)

(MW)
North & Cent. America

Belize
Canada
Costa Rica
276
262
32
160
26
18
>2,067,312
235,883 MW
~536,000
72,660
~372,000
~59
~1,822
>12,560
223,533
~8000MW
7,218MW
1,524
7,384
78.4
~200
1,083-1,621
18
30
0.2
n/a
n/a
Cuba
Dominica
Dominican Rep
El Salvador
Grenada
>1210
200
136.3
130
21
23.5
n/a
50,000
9,000
6,000
~470
1,383
12
292
>140
7,404
5,000
472
2,050
34
66
>261
n/a
n/a
10
21
1.3
10
~23,500
644
3625
45.7
>275.6
>1,700
n/a
54
240
(30)
n/a
n/a
~1900MW
525
2,303
33.8
612
Guadeloupe
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
16,455
North & Central America
Country
Gross
Theoretical
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
Economically
feasible
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
% prod'n by
recent (GWh/year)
(average)
Installed
hydrocapacity
(MW)
Hydro capacity
under
construction
(MW)

(MW)
North & Cent. America

Jamaica
Mexico
114MW
24
~78
~2
0-75.2
429,534
~135,000
~33,000
11,310
25,000
22.2
>2050
~2400
Nicaragua
32,938
9,541
6,552
111
315
(10)
>52
230-1,202
Panama
26,147
n/a
11,577
871
3,925
62
597
1,100
Puerto Rico
n/a
85
338
n/a
n/a
n/a
St Lucia
n/a
St. Vincent&Grenadines
n/a
25
17
Trinidad & Tabago
n/a
~6
n/a
724-13,250
>5,362
20,838-34,950
USA
North & Cent. America Total
~512GW
151,400MW
~376,000
78,200
~270,000
>7,417,847
1,979,778
1,024,406
167,105
688,873
South America
Country
Gross
Theoretical
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
Economically
feasible
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
% prod'n by
recent (GWh/year)
(average)
Installed
hydrocapacity
(MW)
Hydro capacity
under
construction
(MW)

(MW)
South America
Argentina
354,150
130,000
78,000
10,156
36,882
33.6
>535
~9,000
Bolivia
178,000
126,000
50,000
477
2,095
(50)
88
2,338-3,064
>2,280,000
1,253,100
~763,500
>84,000
365,062
79.9
11,600
~35,750
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
French Guiana
Guyana
Paraguay
Peru
Surinam
Uruguay
Venezuela
South America Total
227,245
162,232
97,339
4,907
22,354
38.2
>322
>5,800
1,000,000
200000
140,000
9,023
41,823
78
738
~10,000
166,808
133,507
105,654
2,027
9,037
49.7
1,971
1,706-6,986
1,580
725
>426
116
512
67
n/a
n/a
81,203
37,284
21,900
n/a
~100
111,000
85,000
68,000
8,410
52,600
99.9
395
200-1,790
1,577,000
395,000
260,000
3,242
19,040
59
266
9,213
38,520
12,840
7,704
~120
~600
n/a
n/a
0-732
32,000
10,000
6,000
1,538
4,500
56
>70
731,374
260,720
~100,000
14,627
86,710
73.4
2,704
0-7,250
>5,778,880
2,606,408
1,558,523
>138,644
641,216
>18,619
74,177-89,755
World Total
Region
Africa Total

hydropower
hydropower
potential
potential
(GWh/year)
(GWh/year)
Economically
feasible
hydropower
potential
(GWh/year)
Installed
hydrocapacity
(MW)
Hydro gen'n in 2008 % prod'n by hydro in

Hydro capacity
or avarage/most
2008 or most recent under construction Planned hydro capacity
recent (GWh/year)
(average)
(MW)
(MW)
>2,385,221
>1,161,467
>773,996
22,304
102,107
>7,961
24,703-97,624
>16,990,783
5,785,657
3,553,627
299,182
1,107,055
>120,904
175,255-278,127
654,177
185,012
88,701
13,626
41,886
182
696-2,800
5,380,005
2,885,887
1,772,478
246,491
771,408
>18,812
48,855-101,676
North & Cent. America Total
>7,417,847
1,979,778
1,024,406
167,105
688,873
>5,362
20,838-34,950
South America Total
>5,778,880
2,606,408
1,558,523
>138,644
641,216
>18,619
74,177-89,755
>38,606,913
>14,604,209
>8,771,502
>887,352
3,352,546
>171,840
344,524-604,930
Asia Total
Australia/Oceania Total
Europe Total
World Total

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WORLD HYDRO POTENTIAL AND

Gross Theoretical Technically feasible

Planned hydro capacity

Cape Verde Islands

Central African Rep

Source: Hydropower and Dams, World Atlas, 2009

Planned hydro capacity

Source: Hydropower and Dams, World Atlas, 2009

Source: Hydropower and Dams, World Atlas, 2009

Gross Theoretical Technically feasible

Planned hydro capacity

Source: Hydropower and Dams, World Atlas, 2009

Gross Theoretical Technically feasible

Planned hydro capacity

Source: Hydropower and Dams, World Atlas, 2009

Gross Theoretical Technically feasible

Planned hydro capacity

Source: Hydropower and Dams, World Atlas, 2009

Source: Hydropower and Dams, World Atlas, 2009

Gross Theoretical Technically feasible

Planned hydro capacity

Papua New Guinea

Source: Hydropower and Dams, World Atlas, 2009

Planned hydro capacity

Source: Hydropower and Dams, World Atlas, 2009

Planned hydro capacity

Macedonia (FYR of)

Source: Hydropower and Dams, World Atlas, 2009

Planned hydro capacity

Source: Hydropower and Dams, World Atlas, 2009

North & Central America

Gross Theoretical Technically feasible

Planned hydro capacity

North & Cent. America

Source: Hydropower and Dams, World Atlas, 2009

North & Central America

Planned hydro capacity

North & Cent. America

Trinidad & Tabago

North & Cent. America Total

Source: Hydropower and Dams, World Atlas, 2009

Planned hydro capacity

Source: Hydropower and Dams, World Atlas, 2009

Gross Theoretical Technically feasible

Hydro gen'n in 2008 % prod'n by hydro in

North & Cent. America Total

South America Total

Source: Hydropower and Dams, World Atlas, 2009

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