Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — East Asia & Pacific

Solar share of electricity in East Asia & Pacific in 2024 — 7.81%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 7.8 pp.

2024 7.81% +1.59 pp vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 7.81%2024
Period minimum 0.01%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — East Asia & Pacific, 2000–2024024682000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0.01%2001: 0.02%2002: 0.02%2003: 0.02%2004: 0.03%2005: 0.03%2006: 0.04%2007: 0.04%2008: 0.05%2009: 0.07%2010: 0.09%2011: 0.15%2012: 0.19%2013: 0.33%2014: 0.65%2015: 0.99%2016: 1.38%2017: 1.98%2018: 2.56%2019: 3.13%2020: 3.66%2021: 4.26%2022: 5.12%2023: 6.23%2024: 7.81%
Change over the period: +7.8 pp Annual average: 0.33 pp

Comparison, 2024

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: East Asia & Pacific

East Asia & Pacific 7.81%
World computed 6.94%
Solar share of electricity — East Asia & Pacific, by year East Asia & Pacific All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 7.81 +1.59 pp
2023 6.23 +1.11 pp
2022 5.12 +0.86 pp
2021 4.26 +0.61 pp
2020 3.66 +0.52 pp
2019 3.13 +0.57 pp
2018 2.56 +0.58 pp
2017 1.98 +0.61 pp
2016 1.38 +0.39 pp
2015 0.99 +0.34 pp
2014 0.65 +0.32 pp
2013 0.33 +0.15 pp
2012 0.19 +0.04 pp
2011 0.15 +0.06 pp
2010 0.09 +0.03 pp
2009 0.07 +0.02 pp
2008 0.05 +0.01 pp
2007 0.04 +0 pp
2006 0.04 +0.01 pp
2005 0.03 +0.01 pp
2004 0.03 +0 pp
2003 0.02 +0.01 pp
2002 0.02 +0 pp
2001 0.02 +0.01 pp
2000 0.01

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.