Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Burkina Faso

Solar share of electricity in Burkina Faso in 2024 — 6.51%. Ranked 69 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 6.51 pp.

2024 6.51% +1.18 pp vs 2023
World rank 69of 195
Period maximum 6.51%2024
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Burkina Faso, 2000–2024024682000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0%2010: 1.72%2011: 1.85%2012: 1.56%2013: 1.33%2014: 1.14%2015: 0.99%2016: 2.02%2017: 2.68%2018: 4.81%2019: 5.63%2020: 5.66%2021: 5.26%2022: 5.33%2023: 5.33%2024: 6.51%
Change over the period: +6.51 pp Annual average: 0.27 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Burkina Faso 6.51%
World computed 6.94%
Sub-Saharan Africa computed 4.83%
Western Africa computed 1.81%
Low-income countries computed 2.95%
Solar share of electricity — Burkina Faso, by year Burkina Faso All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 6.51 +1.18 pp
2023 5.33 +0 pp
2022 5.33 +0.07 pp
2021 5.26 −0.4 pp
2020 5.66 +0.03 pp
2019 5.63 +0.82 pp
2018 4.81 +2.13 pp
2017 2.68 +0.66 pp
2016 2.02 +1.03 pp
2015 0.99 −0.15 pp
2014 1.14 −0.19 pp
2013 1.33 −0.23 pp
2012 1.56 −0.29 pp
2011 1.85 +0.13 pp
2010 1.72 +1.72 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.