Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Democratic Republic of the Congo

Solar share of electricity in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2024 — 15.77%. Ranked 22 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 15.77 pp.

2024 15.77% +1.69 pp vs 2023
World rank 22of 195
Period maximum 15.77%2024
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2000–2024051015202000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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%2014: 0%2015: 0%2016: 0%2017: 0.11%2018: 0.1%2019: 0.08%2020: 0.16%2021: 7.4%2022: 13.78%2023: 14.08%2024: 15.77%
Change over the period: +15.77 pp Annual average: 0.66 pp

Comparison, 2024

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Democratic Republic of the Congo

Democratic Republic of the Congo 15.77%
World computed 6.94%
Sub-Saharan Africa computed 4.83%
Middle Africa computed 6.16%
Low-income countries computed 2.95%
Solar share of electricity — Democratic Republic of the Congo, by year Democratic Republic of the Congo All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 15.77 +1.69 pp
2023 14.08 +0.3 pp
2022 13.78 +6.38 pp
2021 7.4 +7.24 pp
2020 0.16 +0.08 pp
2019 0.08 −0.02 pp
2018 0.1 −0.01 pp
2017 0.11 +0.11 pp
2016 0 +0 pp
2015 0 +0 pp
2014 0 +0 pp
2013 0 +0 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

Middle Africa, 2024

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.