Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Mauritania

Solar share of electricity in Mauritania in 2024 — 7.73%. Ranked 58 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 7.73 pp.

2024 7.73% +1.03 pp vs 2023
World rank 58of 195
Period maximum 10.27%2018
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Mauritania, 2000–20240510152000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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: 3.06%2014: 2.91%2015: 2.59%2016: 5.17%2017: 4.44%2018: 10.27%2019: 9.55%2020: 8.59%2021: 8.86%2022: 8.54%2023: 6.7%2024: 7.73%
Change over the period: +7.73 pp Annual average: 0.32 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Mauritania 7.73%
World computed 6.94%
Sub-Saharan Africa computed 4.83%
Western Africa computed 1.81%
Solar share of electricity — Mauritania, by year Mauritania All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 7.73 +1.03 pp
2023 6.7 −1.84 pp
2022 8.54 −0.32 pp
2021 8.86 +0.27 pp
2020 8.59 −0.96 pp
2019 9.55 −0.72 pp
2018 10.27 +5.83 pp
2017 4.44 −0.73 pp
2016 5.17 +2.58 pp
2015 2.59 −0.32 pp
2014 2.91 −0.15 pp
2013 3.06 +3.06 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.