Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Latvia

Solar share of electricity in Latvia in 2025 — 12.95%. Ranked 24 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 12.95 pp.

2025 12.95% +4.42 pp vs 2024
World rank 24of 91
Period maximum 12.95%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Latvia, 2000–20250510152000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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%2015: 0%2016: 0%2017: 0%2018: 0%2019: 0%2020: 0%2021: 0.17%2022: 1.59%2023: 3.76%2024: 8.53%2025: 12.95%
Change over the period: +12.95 pp Annual average: 0.52 pp

Comparison, 2025

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

Latvia 12.95%
Europe & Central Asia computed 8.48%
Northern Europe computed 4.42%
Solar share of electricity — Latvia, by year Latvia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 12.95 +4.42 pp
2024 8.53 +4.77 pp
2023 3.76 +2.17 pp
2022 1.59 +1.42 pp
2021 0.17 +0.17 pp
2020 0 +0 pp
2019 0 +0 pp
2018 0 +0 pp
2017 0 +0 pp
2016 0 +0 pp
2015 0 +0 pp
2014 0 +0 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

Northern 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.