Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Bangladesh

Solar share of electricity in Bangladesh in 2025 — 1.51%. Ranked 73 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 1.51 pp.

2025 1.51% +0.31 pp vs 2024
World rank 73of 91
Period maximum 1.51%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Bangladesh, 2000–202500.511.522000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0.03%2007: 0.06%2008: 0.06%2009: 0.08%2010: 0.17%2011: 0.14%2012: 0.19%2013: 0.24%2014: 0.29%2015: 0.34%2016: 0.32%2017: 0.34%2018: 0.39%2019: 0.43%2020: 0.54%2021: 0.64%2022: 0.85%2023: 1.06%2024: 1.2%2025: 1.51%
Change over the period: +1.51 pp Annual average: 0.06 pp
Solar share of electricity — Bangladesh, by year Bangladesh All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 1.51 +0.31 pp
2024 1.2 +0.14 pp
2023 1.06 +0.21 pp
2022 0.85 +0.21 pp
2021 0.64 +0.1 pp
2020 0.54 +0.11 pp
2019 0.43 +0.04 pp
2018 0.39 +0.05 pp
2017 0.34 +0.02 pp
2016 0.32 −0.02 pp
2015 0.34 +0.05 pp
2014 0.29 +0.05 pp
2013 0.24 +0.05 pp
2012 0.19 +0.05 pp
2011 0.14 −0.03 pp
2010 0.17 +0.09 pp
2009 0.08 +0.02 pp
2008 0.06 +0 pp
2007 0.06 +0.03 pp
2006 0.03 +0.03 pp
2005 0 +0 pp
2004 0 +0 pp
2003 0 +0 pp
2002 0 +0 pp
2001 0 +0 pp
2000 0

Southern Asia, 2025

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

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.