Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Iraq

Solar share of electricity in Iraq in 2024 — 0.29%. Ranked 155 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 0.29 pp.

2024 0.29% +0.03 pp vs 2023
World rank 155of 195
Period maximum 0.32%2020
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Iraq, 2000–202400.10.20.30.42000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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: 0.08%2014: 0.09%2015: 0.08%2016: 0.07%2017: 0.06%2018: 0.06%2019: 0.05%2020: 0.32%2021: 0.32%2022: 0.28%2023: 0.26%2024: 0.29%
Change over the period: +0.29 pp Annual average: 0.01 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Iraq 0.29%
World computed 6.94%
Western Asia computed 4.72%
Solar share of electricity — Iraq, by year Iraq All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 0.29 +0.03 pp
2023 0.26 −0.02 pp
2022 0.28 −0.04 pp
2021 0.32 +0 pp
2020 0.32 +0.27 pp
2019 0.05 −0.01 pp
2018 0.06 +0 pp
2017 0.06 −0.01 pp
2016 0.07 −0.01 pp
2015 0.08 −0.01 pp
2014 0.09 +0.01 pp
2013 0.08 +0.08 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.