Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Croatia

Solar share of electricity in Croatia in 2025 — 8.78%. Ranked 36 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 8.78 pp.

2025 8.78% +3.42 pp vs 2024
World rank 36of 91
Period maximum 8.78%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Croatia, 2000–202502.557.5102000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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: 0.07%2014: 0.3%2015: 0.53%2016: 0.56%2017: 0.68%2018: 0.52%2019: 0.63%2020: 0.76%2021: 0.99%2022: 1.06%2023: 2.35%2024: 5.36%2025: 8.78%
Change over the period: +8.78 pp Annual average: 0.35 pp

Comparison, 2025

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

Croatia 8.78%
Europe & Central Asia computed 8.48%
Southern Europe computed 17.65%
Solar share of electricity — Croatia, by year Croatia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 8.78 +3.42 pp
2024 5.36 +3.01 pp
2023 2.35 +1.29 pp
2022 1.06 +0.07 pp
2021 0.99 +0.23 pp
2020 0.76 +0.13 pp
2019 0.63 +0.11 pp
2018 0.52 −0.16 pp
2017 0.68 +0.12 pp
2016 0.56 +0.03 pp
2015 0.53 +0.23 pp
2014 0.3 +0.23 pp
2013 0.07 +0.07 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

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.