Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Eritrea

Solar share of electricity in Eritrea in 2024 — 11.11%. Ranked 36 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 11.11 pp.

2024 11.11% +0.91 pp vs 2023
World rank 36of 195
Period maximum 12.82%2018
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Eritrea, 2000–20240510152000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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: 2.94%2018: 12.82%2019: 12.5%2020: 12.2%2021: 11.9%2022: 11.36%2023: 10.2%2024: 11.11%
Change over the period: +11.11 pp Annual average: 0.46 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Eritrea 11.11%
World computed 6.94%
Sub-Saharan Africa computed 4.83%
Eastern Africa computed 1.53%
Low-income countries computed 2.95%
Solar share of electricity — Eritrea, by year Eritrea All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 11.11 +0.91 pp
2023 10.2 −1.16 pp
2022 11.36 −0.54 pp
2021 11.9 −0.3 pp
2020 12.2 −0.3 pp
2019 12.5 −0.32 pp
2018 12.82 +9.88 pp
2017 2.94 +2.94 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

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.