Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Guatemala

Solar share of electricity in Guatemala in 2024 — 1.77%. Ranked 117 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 1.77 pp.

2024 1.77% +0.16 pp vs 2023
World rank 117of 195
Period maximum 1.81%2019
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Guatemala, 2000–202400.511.522000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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: 0.09%2015: 1.43%2016: 1.6%2017: 1.62%2018: 1.51%2019: 1.81%2020: 1.77%2021: 1.49%2022: 1.71%2023: 1.61%2024: 1.77%
Change over the period: +1.77 pp Annual average: 0.07 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Guatemala 1.77%
World computed 6.94%
Latin America & Caribbean computed 7.32%
Central America computed 7.04%
Solar share of electricity — Guatemala, by year Guatemala All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 1.77 +0.16 pp
2023 1.61 −0.1 pp
2022 1.71 +0.22 pp
2021 1.49 −0.28 pp
2020 1.77 −0.04 pp
2019 1.81 +0.3 pp
2018 1.51 −0.11 pp
2017 1.62 +0.02 pp
2016 1.6 +0.17 pp
2015 1.43 +1.34 pp
2014 0.09 +0.09 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, 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.