Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Mercosur

Solar share of electricity in Mercosur in 2025 — 9.73%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 9.73 pp.

2025 9.73% +1.85 pp vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 9.73%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Mercosur, 2000–202502.557.5102000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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%2015: 0.02%2016: 0.04%2017: 0.14%2018: 0.5%2019: 0.95%2020: 1.53%2021: 2.25%2022: 3.8%2023: 5.86%2024: 7.88%2025: 9.73%
Change over the period: +9.73 pp Annual average: 0.39 pp
Solar share of electricity — Mercosur, by year Mercosur All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 9.73 +1.85 pp
2024 7.88 +2.02 pp
2023 5.86 +2.06 pp
2022 3.8 +1.54 pp
2021 2.25 +0.73 pp
2020 1.53 +0.58 pp
2019 0.95 +0.45 pp
2018 0.5 +0.36 pp
2017 0.14 +0.1 pp
2016 0.04 +0.02 pp
2015 0.02 +0.01 pp
2014 0 +0 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.