Renewable energy and jobs: annual review 2019

This sixth edition of Renewable energy and jobs: annual review provides the latest available estimates and calculations on renewable energy employment. It represents an on-going effort to refine and improve data and methodologies. Global numbers are based on a wide range of studies with varying methodologies and uneven detail and quality. The global renewable energy sector employed 11 million people in 2018. This compares with 10.3 million in 2017, based on available information. Employment remains concentrated in a handful of countries, with China, Brazil, the United States, India and members of the European Union in the lead. Asian countries' share remained at 60 per cent of the global total. Several factors - including national deployment and industrial policies, changes in the geographic footprint of supply chains and in trade patterns, and industry consolidation trends - shape how and where jobs are created. Nonetheless, the increasingly diverse geographic footprint of energy-generation capacities and, to a lesser degree, assembly and manufacturing plants, has created jobs in a rising number of countries.

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