Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Malaysia

Solar share of electricity in Malaysia in 2025 — 2.24%. Ranked 69 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 2.24 pp.

2025 2.24% +0.16 pp vs 2024
World rank 69of 91
Period maximum 2.24%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Malaysia, 2000–202501232000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0%2010: 0%2011: 0%2012: 0.01%2013: 0.1%2014: 0.16%2015: 0.18%2016: 0.2%2017: 0.21%2018: 0.37%2019: 0.82%2020: 1.18%2021: 1.31%2022: 1.5%2023: 1.73%2024: 2.08%2025: 2.24%
Change over the period: +2.24 pp Annual average: 0.09 pp
Solar share of electricity — Malaysia, by year Malaysia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 2.24 +0.16 pp
2024 2.08 +0.35 pp
2023 1.73 +0.23 pp
2022 1.5 +0.19 pp
2021 1.31 +0.13 pp
2020 1.18 +0.36 pp
2019 0.82 +0.45 pp
2018 0.37 +0.16 pp
2017 0.21 +0.01 pp
2016 0.2 +0.02 pp
2015 0.18 +0.02 pp
2014 0.16 +0.06 pp
2013 0.1 +0.09 pp
2012 0.01 +0.01 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

South-Eastern Asia, 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.