Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Egypt

Solar share of electricity in Egypt in 2025 — 3.1%. Ranked 61 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 3.1 pp.

2025 3.1% +0.54 pp vs 2024
World rank 61of 91
Period maximum 3.1%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Egypt, 2000–2025012342000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0%2010: 0.02%2011: 0.16%2012: 0.31%2013: 0.02%2014: 0.08%2015: 0.02%2016: 0.12%2017: 0.31%2018: 0.28%2019: 0.74%2020: 2.24%2021: 2.37%2022: 2.31%2023: 2.22%2024: 2.56%2025: 3.1%
Change over the period: +3.1 pp Annual average: 0.12 pp
Solar share of electricity — Egypt, by year Egypt All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 3.1 +0.54 pp
2024 2.56 +0.34 pp
2023 2.22 −0.09 pp
2022 2.31 −0.06 pp
2021 2.37 +0.13 pp
2020 2.24 +1.5 pp
2019 0.74 +0.46 pp
2018 0.28 −0.03 pp
2017 0.31 +0.19 pp
2016 0.12 +0.1 pp
2015 0.02 −0.06 pp
2014 0.08 +0.06 pp
2013 0.02 −0.29 pp
2012 0.31 +0.15 pp
2011 0.16 +0.14 pp
2010 0.02 +0.02 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

Northern Africa, 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.