Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Colombia

Solar share of electricity in Colombia in 2025 — 5.09%. Ranked 53 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 5.07 pp.

2025 5.09% +1.24 pp vs 2024
World rank 53of 91
Period maximum 5.09%2025
Period minimum 0.01%2013

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Colombia, 2000–202502462000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0.02%2001: 0.02%2002: 0.02%2003: 0.02%2004: 0.02%2005: 0.02%2006: 0.02%2007: 0.02%2008: 0.02%2009: 0.02%2010: 0.02%2011: 0.02%2012: 0.02%2013: 0.01%2014: 0.01%2015: 0.01%2016: 0.01%2017: 0.01%2018: 0.03%2019: 0.17%2020: 0.24%2021: 0.39%2022: 0.76%2023: 1.56%2024: 3.85%2025: 5.09%
Change over the period: +5.07 pp Annual average: 0.2 pp

Comparison, 2025

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

Colombia 5.09%
South America computed 9.87%
Solar share of electricity — Colombia, by year Colombia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 5.09 +1.24 pp
2024 3.85 +2.29 pp
2023 1.56 +0.8 pp
2022 0.76 +0.37 pp
2021 0.39 +0.15 pp
2020 0.24 +0.07 pp
2019 0.17 +0.14 pp
2018 0.03 +0.02 pp
2017 0.01 +0 pp
2016 0.01 +0 pp
2015 0.01 +0 pp
2014 0.01 +0 pp
2013 0.01 −0.01 pp
2012 0.02 +0 pp
2011 0.02 +0 pp
2010 0.02 +0 pp
2009 0.02 +0 pp
2008 0.02 +0 pp
2007 0.02 +0 pp
2006 0.02 +0 pp
2005 0.02 +0 pp
2004 0.02 +0 pp
2003 0.02 +0 pp
2002 0.02 +0 pp
2001 0.02 +0 pp
2000 0.02

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.