Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Brazil

Solar share of electricity in Brazil in 2025 — 11.81%. Ranked 26 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 11.81 pp.

2025 11.81% +2.25 pp vs 2024
World rank 26of 91
Period maximum 11.81%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Brazil, 2000–20250510152000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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%2015: 0.01%2016: 0.02%2017: 0.14%2018: 0.58%2019: 1.05%2020: 1.71%2021: 2.55%2022: 4.45%2023: 7.15%2024: 9.56%2025: 11.81%
Change over the period: +11.81 pp Annual average: 0.47 pp

Comparison, 2025

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

Brazil 11.81%
South America computed 9.87%
Solar share of electricity — Brazil, by year Brazil All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 11.81 +2.25 pp
2024 9.56 +2.41 pp
2023 7.15 +2.7 pp
2022 4.45 +1.9 pp
2021 2.55 +0.84 pp
2020 1.71 +0.66 pp
2019 1.05 +0.47 pp
2018 0.58 +0.44 pp
2017 0.14 +0.12 pp
2016 0.02 +0.01 pp
2015 0.01 +0.01 pp
2014 0 +0 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

South America, 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.