Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Jamaica

Solar share of electricity in Jamaica in 2024 — 3.05%. Ranked 97 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 3.05 pp.

2024 3.05% +0.32 pp vs 2023
World rank 97of 195
Period maximum 3.05%2024
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Jamaica, 2000–2024012342000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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: 0.23%2015: 0.23%2016: 0.22%2017: 0.91%2018: 1.26%2019: 1.94%2020: 2.8%2021: 2.99%2022: 2.9%2023: 2.73%2024: 3.05%
Change over the period: +3.05 pp Annual average: 0.13 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Jamaica 3.05%
World computed 6.94%
Latin America & Caribbean computed 7.32%
Caribbean computed 3.68%
Solar share of electricity — Jamaica, by year Jamaica All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 3.05 +0.32 pp
2023 2.73 −0.17 pp
2022 2.9 −0.09 pp
2021 2.99 +0.19 pp
2020 2.8 +0.86 pp
2019 1.94 +0.68 pp
2018 1.26 +0.35 pp
2017 0.91 +0.69 pp
2016 0.22 −0.01 pp
2015 0.23 +0 pp
2014 0.23 +0.23 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.