Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — India

Solar share of electricity in India in 2025 — 9.42%. Ranked 35 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 9.42 pp.

2025 9.42% +2.39 pp vs 2024
World rank 35of 91
Period maximum 9.42%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — India, 2000–202502.557.5102000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0.01%2008: 0.01%2009: 0.01%2010: 0.01%2011: 0.08%2012: 0.19%2013: 0.3%2014: 0.39%2015: 0.54%2016: 0.87%2017: 1.53%2018: 2.38%2019: 2.34%2020: 3.38%2021: 3.91%2022: 5.32%2023: 6.02%2024: 7.03%2025: 9.42%
Change over the period: +9.42 pp Annual average: 0.38 pp
Solar share of electricity — India, by year India All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 9.42 +2.39 pp
2024 7.03 +1.01 pp
2023 6.02 +0.7 pp
2022 5.32 +1.41 pp
2021 3.91 +0.53 pp
2020 3.38 +1.04 pp
2019 2.34 −0.04 pp
2018 2.38 +0.85 pp
2017 1.53 +0.66 pp
2016 0.87 +0.33 pp
2015 0.54 +0.15 pp
2014 0.39 +0.09 pp
2013 0.3 +0.11 pp
2012 0.19 +0.11 pp
2011 0.08 +0.07 pp
2010 0.01 +0 pp
2009 0.01 +0 pp
2008 0.01 +0 pp
2007 0.01 +0.01 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

Southern Asia, 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.