Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Middle East & North Africa

Solar share of electricity in Middle East & North Africa in 2024 — 2.86%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 2.86 pp.

2024 2.86% +0.46 pp vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 2.86%2024
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Middle East & North Africa, 2000–202401232000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0%2010: 0.01%2011: 0.04%2012: 0.07%2013: 0.05%2014: 0.11%2015: 0.13%2016: 0.23%2017: 0.34%2018: 0.47%2019: 0.87%2020: 1.29%2021: 1.53%2022: 1.81%2023: 2.39%2024: 2.86%
Change over the period: +2.86 pp Annual average: 0.12 pp

Comparison, 2024

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Middle East & North Africa

Middle East & North Africa 2.86%
World computed 6.94%
Solar share of electricity — Middle East & North Africa, by year Middle East & North Africa All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 2.86 +0.46 pp
2023 2.39 +0.58 pp
2022 1.81 +0.29 pp
2021 1.53 +0.23 pp
2020 1.29 +0.43 pp
2019 0.87 +0.39 pp
2018 0.47 +0.13 pp
2017 0.34 +0.11 pp
2016 0.23 +0.1 pp
2015 0.13 +0.02 pp
2014 0.11 +0.06 pp
2013 0.05 −0.02 pp
2012 0.07 +0.04 pp
2011 0.04 +0.03 pp
2010 0.01 +0.01 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.