Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — BRICS

Solar share of electricity in BRICS in 2025 — 9.73%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 9.73 pp.

2025 9.73% +2.58 pp vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 9.73%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — BRICS, 2000–202502.557.5102000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0.01%2010: 0.01%2011: 0.05%2012: 0.07%2013: 0.13%2014: 0.32%2015: 0.51%2016: 0.81%2017: 1.36%2018: 1.96%2019: 2.35%2020: 2.82%2021: 3.26%2022: 4.23%2023: 5.44%2024: 7.15%2025: 9.73%
Change over the period: +9.73 pp Annual average: 0.39 pp
Solar share of electricity — BRICS, by year BRICS All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 9.73 +2.58 pp
2024 7.15 +1.71 pp
2023 5.44 +1.21 pp
2022 4.23 +0.97 pp
2021 3.26 +0.44 pp
2020 2.82 +0.46 pp
2019 2.35 +0.39 pp
2018 1.96 +0.6 pp
2017 1.36 +0.55 pp
2016 0.81 +0.3 pp
2015 0.51 +0.2 pp
2014 0.32 +0.19 pp
2013 0.13 +0.06 pp
2012 0.07 +0.02 pp
2011 0.05 +0.03 pp
2010 0.01 +0.01 pp
2009 0.01 +0.01 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.