Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Barbados

Solar share of electricity in Barbados in 2024 — 9.01%. Ranked 47 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 9.01 pp.

2024 9.01% +0.83 pp vs 2023
World rank 47of 195
Period maximum 9.01%2024
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Barbados, 2000–202402.557.5102000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0%2010: 0%2011: 0%2012: 0%2013: 0%2014: 0.97%2015: 0.96%2016: 1.9%2017: 2.88%2018: 2.88%2019: 3.77%2020: 6.6%2021: 7.55%2022: 7.34%2023: 8.18%2024: 9.01%
Change over the period: +9.01 pp Annual average: 0.38 pp

Comparison, 2024

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Barbados

Barbados 9.01%
World computed 6.94%
Latin America & Caribbean computed 7.32%
Caribbean computed 3.68%
High-income countries computed 6.92%
Solar share of electricity — Barbados, by year Barbados All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 9.01 +0.83 pp
2023 8.18 +0.84 pp
2022 7.34 −0.21 pp
2021 7.55 +0.95 pp
2020 6.6 +2.83 pp
2019 3.77 +0.89 pp
2018 2.88 +0 pp
2017 2.88 +0.98 pp
2016 1.9 +0.94 pp
2015 0.96 −0.01 pp
2014 0.97 +0.97 pp
2013 0 +0 pp
2012 0 +0 pp
2011 0 +0 pp
2010 0 +0 pp
2009 0 +0 pp
2008 0 +0 pp
2007 0 +0 pp
2006 0 +0 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.