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SDG 7

Affordable and Clean Energy

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable energy.

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Ireland: Significant challenges remain· Moderately improving

Official figures from the Sustainable Development Report 2026 (Sachs, Lafortune, Fuller, Iablonovski — SDSN), shown as published — only the layout is ours. The report is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by SDSN. Imported from their published database on 2026-09-21.

What this goal covers

  • •Ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, modern energy
  • •Substantially increase the share of renewable energy in the mix
  • •Double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency

Simplified from the UN's official targets for this goal.

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Goal 7 score, by country

Ireland Other countries
1=Monaco
100/100
1=San Marino
100/100
2Norway
91.5/100
3Uruguay
91.1/100
4Sweden
90.3/100
···
34Ireland
79.1/100
···
207Korea, Dem. People's Rep.
28.6/100
208Mozambique
26.5/100
209Congo, Dem. Rep.
25.9/100
210Liberia
25/100
211South Sudan
23.8/100

Ireland is in rank group 34 of 211 (out of 213 countries with a score for this goal).

What makes up Ireland's score (79 out of 100)

The average of 4 indicator scores, one per official target area. Each bar scores Ireland from 0 to 100 on that indicator: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0.

  • 7.1 Access to electricity · Access to electricity100% of population (2024)
    100
  • 7.1 Clean cooking · Access to clean cooking fuels100% of population (2023)
    100
  • 7.3 Energy efficiency · Energy intensity (energy used per unit of GDP)1 MJ/$ (2022)
    100
  • 7.2 Renewable energy · Renewable share of final energy consumption12.7% (2021)
    16

Simplified score, may contain errors. See how it's built

Chart data: World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0) and the UN SDG Global Database (UNdata terms). Each goal score (0–100, 100 = best) averages a country's scores on several official indicators, one per main target area of the goal (4 for this goal). Each indicator is scored against a range set by the data: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0. Latest value per country since 2010; fetched 2026-09-22. The scores are calculated by this site; the underlying values are the sources', unchanged. How the scores are built →

County-level data isn't published for this goal yet — Ireland's CSO currently only breaks a handful of SDG indicators down by county.

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