Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Bulgaria

Solar share of electricity in Bulgaria in 2025 — 18.19%. Ranked 14 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 18.19 pp.

2025 18.19% +3.86 pp vs 2024
World rank 14of 91
Period maximum 18.19%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Bulgaria, 2000–2025051015202000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0%2010: 0.02%2011: 0.2%2012: 1.68%2013: 3.23%2014: 2.69%2015: 2.83%2016: 3.12%2017: 3.12%2018: 2.88%2019: 3.25%2020: 3.66%2021: 3.11%2022: 4.16%2023: 8.78%2024: 14.33%2025: 18.19%
Change over the period: +18.19 pp Annual average: 0.73 pp

Comparison, 2025

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

Bulgaria 18.19%
Europe & Central Asia computed 8.48%
Eastern Europe computed 3.07%
Solar share of electricity — Bulgaria, by year Bulgaria All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 18.19 +3.86 pp
2024 14.33 +5.55 pp
2023 8.78 +4.62 pp
2022 4.16 +1.05 pp
2021 3.11 −0.55 pp
2020 3.66 +0.41 pp
2019 3.25 +0.37 pp
2018 2.88 −0.24 pp
2017 3.12 +0 pp
2016 3.12 +0.29 pp
2015 2.83 +0.14 pp
2014 2.69 −0.54 pp
2013 3.23 +1.55 pp
2012 1.68 +1.48 pp
2011 0.2 +0.18 pp
2010 0.02 +0.02 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

Eastern Europe, 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.