Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Mexico

Solar share of electricity in Mexico in 2025 — 7.38%. Ranked 43 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 7.38 pp.

2025 7.38% +0.14 pp vs 2024
World rank 43of 91
Period maximum 7.38%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Mexico, 2000–2025024682000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0.01%2009: 0.01%2010: 0.01%2011: 0.01%2012: 0.02%2013: 0.04%2014: 0.07%2015: 0.06%2016: 0.08%2017: 0.36%2018: 0.92%2019: 2.89%2020: 4.86%2021: 6.14%2022: 5.98%2023: 6.64%2024: 7.24%2025: 7.38%
Change over the period: +7.38 pp Annual average: 0.3 pp
Solar share of electricity — Mexico, by year Mexico All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 7.38 +0.14 pp
2024 7.24 +0.6 pp
2023 6.64 +0.66 pp
2022 5.98 −0.16 pp
2021 6.14 +1.28 pp
2020 4.86 +1.97 pp
2019 2.89 +1.97 pp
2018 0.92 +0.56 pp
2017 0.36 +0.28 pp
2016 0.08 +0.02 pp
2015 0.06 −0.01 pp
2014 0.07 +0.03 pp
2013 0.04 +0.02 pp
2012 0.02 +0.01 pp
2011 0.01 +0 pp
2010 0.01 +0 pp
2009 0.01 +0 pp
2008 0.01 +0.01 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

Central America, 2025

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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.