according to a report The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) and the International Labor Organization (ILO) recently published that approximately 13.7 million people were working in the renewable energy sector worldwide in 2022. This number is almost double the 7.3 million jobs the sector had in 2012. .
Solar PV led job creation in 2022, with 4.9 million jobs, more than a third of the total workforce in the renewable energy sector. This was followed by bioenergy – which includes liquid biofuels, solid biomass, and biogas – which employs about 3.6 million people, and hydropower, which employs about 2.5 million workers.
The report indicates that renewable energies are attracting increasing investments that help create job opportunities in an increasing number of countries. However, the majority of so-called “green jobs” are still concentrated in a small group of countries such as China, which accounts for 41%, Brazil, some EU countries, the United States, and India. China is the country with the largest number of jobs, with more than 5.5 million employees in its strong photovoltaic and wind industries. The second country is Brazil, which employs 1.4 million people, most of them in the field of biofuels, while in the European Union about 1.6 million people work in various sub-sectors.
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