China passed Denmark as top supplier of imported wind turbines
Share of wind turbine imports (HS 850231) by origin, by value, 105 importing countries, 2015–16 vs 2023–24.
- 1. China now builds more ships than everyone else combined
- 2. China makes more electricity than the US and EU combined
- 3. China installs more robots than everyone else combined
- 4. China is building half the world's new reactors
- 5. China switched on 80% of the world's new coal power
- 6. China's vehicle exports grew sevenfold in five years
- 7. Six of the world's ten busiest ports are in China
- 8. China completed six in ten of 2025's new skyscrapers
- 9. China has more metro track than the next six combined
- 10. China refines most of the minerals of the future
- 11. China's new housing starts have fallen 74% since 2019
- 12. China is building more power capacity than everyone else combined
- 13. China now emits more CO2 per person than Japan
- 14. Nearly 20 million Shanghai residents live in a flood zone
- 15. Fewer countries owe China more than the World Bank
- 16. Anhui tripled vehicle output while most old leaders made fewer
- 17. 20 of China's 31 provinces have more deaths than births
- 18. Emerging economies now take 42% of China's electric car exports
- 19. World economy's centre has moved 1,900 km east since 2000
- 20. China passed Denmark as top supplier of imported wind turbines
China's share of wind turbine imports in 2023–24, up from 17.0% in 2015–16. In 2025, with 97 of the 105 importers reporting, it reached 49.6%.
Denmark's share fell, leaving it third behind China and Germany (22.6%). India rose from 1.5% to 7.3%.
Of the six biggest buyers of Chinese turbines in 2023–24, five are rising economies: South Africa, Chile, Brazil, Egypt and Uzbekistan, each getting more than half its turbines from China.
the numbers & method
| China (%) | Denmark (%) | Germany (%) | Spain (%) | Other (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015–16 | 17.0 | 32.5 | 21.9 | 16.3 | 12.4 |
| 2023–24 | 41.9 | 12.3 | 22.6 | 8.8 | 14.4 |
Claim types Fact
UN Statistics Division, UN Comtrade, HS 850231 (electric generating sets, wind-powered; same six-digit code in HS 2012, 2017 and 2022), annual imports by partner, current US$, as reported by each importing country; read from the UN Comtrade API via the progrss vault (vault rule GUIDELINES §4.11; un-comtrade 24 matches, 0 mismatches). Set: the 105 economies that reported this code in 2015, 2016, 2023 and 2024; shares are each origin's two-year sum over the set's two-year world total (US$9.5 bn in 2015–16, US$10.4 bn in 2023–24), which smooths single large wind-farm orders. 'Other' = world total minus the four named origins (India, 7.3% in 2023–24, is in Other). 2025: the 97 of the 105 that have reported. Partner is the origin as recorded by the importer; EU members often record arrivals from other EU states by the state of consignment. The exporter's own figures (mirror data) can differ and are not shown. Re-export hubs (Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands, Belgium, the UAE, Panama) together hold under 0.5% both periods (top-10 partners only). Made in China includes turbines built there by foreign brands; towers and blades shipped separately sit in other codes. Takeaway 3: China's share of each buyer's 2023–24 imports: South Africa 81%, Chile 55%, Brazil 95%, Egypt 99%, Uzbekistan 100%; the sixth is Canada. Shares are progrss calculations. Comtrade images may be used with credit.
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