Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Maldives

Solar share of electricity in the Maldives in 2024 — 7.06%. Ranked 65 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 7.06 pp.

2024 7.06% +0 pp vs 2023
World rank 65of 195
Period maximum 7.06%2022
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Maldives, 2000–2024024682000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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: 1.85%2015: 1.61%2016: 1.49%2017: 2.74%2018: 3.8%2019: 3.7%2020: 4.88%2021: 5.95%2022: 7.06%2023: 7.06%2024: 7.06%
Change over the period: +7.06 pp Annual average: 0.29 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Maldives 7.06%
World computed 6.94%
South Asia computed 7.1%
Southern Asia computed 6.1%
Solar share of electricity — Maldives, by year Maldives All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 7.06 +0 pp
2023 7.06 +0 pp
2022 7.06 +1.11 pp
2021 5.95 +1.07 pp
2020 4.88 +1.18 pp
2019 3.7 −0.1 pp
2018 3.8 +1.06 pp
2017 2.74 +1.25 pp
2016 1.49 −0.12 pp
2015 1.61 −0.24 pp
2014 1.85 +1.85 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

Southern Asia, 2024

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.