Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Hungary

Solar share of electricity in Hungary in 2025 — 27.29%. Ranked 3 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 27.29 pp.

2025 27.29% +3.08 pp vs 2024
World rank 3of 91
Period maximum 27.29%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Hungary, 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: 0.03%2013: 0.07%2014: 0.24%2015: 0.46%2016: 0.75%2017: 1.06%2018: 1.97%2019: 4.38%2020: 7.04%2021: 10.53%2022: 13.22%2023: 19.5%2024: 24.21%2025: 27.29%
Change over the period: +27.29 pp Annual average: 1.09 pp

Comparison, 2025

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

Hungary 27.29%
Europe & Central Asia computed 8.48%
Eastern Europe computed 3.07%
Solar share of electricity — Hungary, by year Hungary All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 27.29 +3.08 pp
2024 24.21 +4.71 pp
2023 19.5 +6.28 pp
2022 13.22 +2.69 pp
2021 10.53 +3.49 pp
2020 7.04 +2.66 pp
2019 4.38 +2.41 pp
2018 1.97 +0.91 pp
2017 1.06 +0.31 pp
2016 0.75 +0.29 pp
2015 0.46 +0.22 pp
2014 0.24 +0.17 pp
2013 0.07 +0.04 pp
2012 0.03 +0.03 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

Eastern Europe, 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.