Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — ASEAN

Solar share of electricity in ASEAN in 2025 — 4.9%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 4.9 pp.

2025 4.9% +1.83 pp vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 4.9%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — ASEAN, 2000–202502462000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0.01%2007: 0.01%2008: 0.01%2009: 0.01%2010: 0.01%2011: 0.01%2012: 0.07%2013: 0.17%2014: 0.26%2015: 0.31%2016: 0.53%2017: 0.63%2018: 0.63%2019: 1.18%2020: 1.81%2021: 3.14%2022: 3.06%2023: 3.03%2024: 3.06%2025: 4.9%
Change over the period: +4.9 pp Annual average: 0.2 pp
Solar share of electricity — ASEAN, by year ASEAN All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 4.9 +1.83 pp
2024 3.06 +0.03 pp
2023 3.03 −0.03 pp
2022 3.06 −0.07 pp
2021 3.14 +1.33 pp
2020 1.81 +0.63 pp
2019 1.18 +0.54 pp
2018 0.63 +0.01 pp
2017 0.63 +0.1 pp
2016 0.53 +0.22 pp
2015 0.31 +0.06 pp
2014 0.26 +0.08 pp
2013 0.17 +0.11 pp
2012 0.07 +0.05 pp
2011 0.01 +0 pp
2010 0.01 +0 pp
2009 0.01 −0 pp
2008 0.01 −0 pp
2007 0.01 −0 pp
2006 0.01 +0.01 pp
2005 0 +0 pp
2004 0 +0 pp
2003 0 +0 pp
2002 0 +0 pp
2001 0 +0 pp
2000 0

About the indicator

The share of electricity generated by solar plants in a country's total generation. The fastest-growing series in all of energy statistics: where twenty years ago the share was measured in hundredths of a percent, it now runs into tens. The figure depends less on how much sun there is than on policy and prices: the leaders are not the sunniest countries but those that started building earlier. The flip side of that growth is the daily cycle: at noon solar pushes out the other sources, and in the evening it is gone altogether.

Important: The World Bank has no separate series for solar — there it sits inside “other renewables” together with biomass and geothermal. Aggregates for groups of countries are weighted by generation in terawatt-hours and computed from 2000 onward: there is no weight before that.

Source: Yearly Electricity Data (Ember), license CC BY 4.0.