Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Kenya

Solar share of electricity in Kenya in 2025 — 4.63%. Ranked 56 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 4.63 pp.

2025 4.63% −0.35 pp vs 2024
World rank 56of 91
Period maximum 4.98%2024
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Kenya, 2000–202502462000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0%2010: 0%2011: 0.13%2012: 0.12%2013: 0.37%2014: 0.54%2015: 0.51%2016: 0.62%2017: 0.65%2018: 0.8%2019: 0.78%2020: 0.77%2021: 1.37%2022: 3.24%2023: 4.53%2024: 4.98%2025: 4.63%
Change over the period: +4.63 pp Annual average: 0.19 pp
Solar share of electricity — Kenya, by year Kenya All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 4.63 −0.35 pp
2024 4.98 +0.45 pp
2023 4.53 +1.29 pp
2022 3.24 +1.87 pp
2021 1.37 +0.6 pp
2020 0.77 −0.01 pp
2019 0.78 −0.02 pp
2018 0.8 +0.15 pp
2017 0.65 +0.03 pp
2016 0.62 +0.11 pp
2015 0.51 −0.03 pp
2014 0.54 +0.17 pp
2013 0.37 +0.25 pp
2012 0.12 −0.01 pp
2011 0.13 +0.13 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 Africa, 2025

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

KE Kenya 4.63 ET Ethiopia 0.12

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.