Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Lebanon

Solar share of electricity in Lebanon in 2024 — 29.96%. Ranked 4 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 29.96 pp.

2024 29.96% +7.67 pp vs 2023
World rank 4of 195
Period maximum 29.96%2024
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Lebanon, 2000–202401020302000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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: 0.06%2015: 0.11%2016: 0.21%2017: 0.28%2018: 0.42%2019: 0.56%2020: 0.77%2021: 3%2022: 28.83%2023: 22.29%2024: 29.96%
Change over the period: +29.96 pp Annual average: 1.25 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Lebanon 29.96%
World computed 6.94%
Western Asia computed 4.72%
Solar share of electricity — Lebanon, by year Lebanon All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 29.96 +7.67 pp
2023 22.29 −6.54 pp
2022 28.83 +25.83 pp
2021 3 +2.23 pp
2020 0.77 +0.21 pp
2019 0.56 +0.14 pp
2018 0.42 +0.14 pp
2017 0.28 +0.07 pp
2016 0.21 +0.1 pp
2015 0.11 +0.05 pp
2014 0.06 +0.06 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.