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This interactive infographic shows the cumulative installed wind power capacity per country, continent and the world as a whole between 1981-2016.

Drag the slider or click the play button in the bottom to see how wind power capacity has changed over time. The area of each circle on the map corresponds to its respective capacity. Hover with the cursor over any circle to see more details. Only countries with more than 50MW of wind power capacity installed as of the end of 2015 are presented on the map.

Thanks to for providing data from 2006-2016.

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Additional data from The Wind Power and Wikipedia. Design by Greenbyte.