Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — El Salvador

Solar share of electricity in El Salvador in 2025 — 20.59%. Ranked 9 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 20.59 pp.

2025 20.59% +1.45 pp vs 2024
World rank 9of 91
Period maximum 23.84%2021
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — El Salvador, 2000–202501020302000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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: 0.16%2016: 0.32%2017: 2.88%2018: 5.7%2019: 9.4%2020: 15.4%2021: 23.84%2022: 18.7%2023: 20.07%2024: 19.14%2025: 20.59%
Change over the period: +20.59 pp Annual average: 0.82 pp
Solar share of electricity — El Salvador, by year El Salvador All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 20.59 +1.45 pp
2024 19.14 −0.93 pp
2023 20.07 +1.37 pp
2022 18.7 −5.14 pp
2021 23.84 +8.44 pp
2020 15.4 +6 pp
2019 9.4 +3.7 pp
2018 5.7 +2.82 pp
2017 2.88 +2.56 pp
2016 0.32 +0.16 pp
2015 0.16 +0.16 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

Central America, 2025

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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.