Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Mauritius

Solar share of electricity in Mauritius in 2024 — 4.99%. Ranked 78 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 4.99 pp.

2024 4.99% +0.4 pp vs 2023
World rank 78of 195
Period maximum 5.17%2020
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Mauritius, 2000–202402462000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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: 1.02%2015: 1%2016: 0.98%2017: 1.29%2018: 1.6%2019: 4.02%2020: 5.17%2021: 5.02%2022: 5.13%2023: 4.59%2024: 4.99%
Change over the period: +4.99 pp Annual average: 0.21 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Mauritius 4.99%
World computed 6.94%
Sub-Saharan Africa computed 4.83%
Eastern Africa computed 1.53%
Solar share of electricity — Mauritius, by year Mauritius All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 4.99 +0.4 pp
2023 4.59 −0.54 pp
2022 5.13 +0.11 pp
2021 5.02 −0.15 pp
2020 5.17 +1.15 pp
2019 4.02 +2.42 pp
2018 1.6 +0.31 pp
2017 1.29 +0.31 pp
2016 0.98 −0.02 pp
2015 1 −0.02 pp
2014 1.02 +1.02 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.