Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Chile

Solar share of electricity in Chile in 2025 — 25.06%. Ranked 4 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 25.06 pp.

2025 25.06% +2.28 pp vs 2024
World rank 4of 91
Period maximum 25.06%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Chile, 2000–202501020302000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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: 0.01%2014: 0.68%2015: 1.66%2016: 3.29%2017: 4.87%2018: 6.26%2019: 7.5%2020: 9.01%2021: 11.99%2022: 17.26%2023: 20.11%2024: 22.78%2025: 25.06%
Change over the period: +25.06 pp Annual average: 1 pp

Comparison, 2025

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

Chile 25.06%
South America computed 9.87%
Solar share of electricity — Chile, by year Chile All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 25.06 +2.28 pp
2024 22.78 +2.67 pp
2023 20.11 +2.85 pp
2022 17.26 +5.27 pp
2021 11.99 +2.98 pp
2020 9.01 +1.51 pp
2019 7.5 +1.24 pp
2018 6.26 +1.39 pp
2017 4.87 +1.58 pp
2016 3.29 +1.63 pp
2015 1.66 +0.98 pp
2014 0.68 +0.67 pp
2013 0.01 +0.01 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.