Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Cuba

Solar share of electricity in Cuba in 2024 — 1.24%. Ranked 126 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 1.24 pp.

2024 1.24% +0.18 pp vs 2023
World rank 126of 195
Period maximum 1.34%2022
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Cuba, 2000–202400.511.52000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0%2010: 0%2011: 0%2012: 0.05%2013: 0.57%2014: 0.46%2015: 0.64%2016: 0.68%2017: 0.39%2018: 0.58%2019: 1.01%2020: 1.16%2021: 1.23%2022: 1.34%2023: 1.06%2024: 1.24%
Change over the period: +1.24 pp Annual average: 0.05 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Cuba 1.24%
World computed 6.94%
Latin America & Caribbean computed 7.32%
Caribbean computed 3.68%
Solar share of electricity — Cuba, by year Cuba All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 1.24 +0.18 pp
2023 1.06 −0.28 pp
2022 1.34 +0.11 pp
2021 1.23 +0.07 pp
2020 1.16 +0.15 pp
2019 1.01 +0.43 pp
2018 0.58 +0.19 pp
2017 0.39 −0.29 pp
2016 0.68 +0.04 pp
2015 0.64 +0.18 pp
2014 0.46 −0.11 pp
2013 0.57 +0.52 pp
2012 0.05 +0.05 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.