Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Namibia

Solar share of electricity in Namibia in 2024 — 35.37%. Ranked 3 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 35.37 pp.

2024 35.37% +8.39 pp vs 2023
World rank 3of 195
Period maximum 37.88%2022
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Namibia, 2000–20240102030402000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0.67%2010: 0.76%2011: 0.69%2012: 0.6%2013: 1.48%2014: 1.96%2015: 2.53%2016: 4.05%2017: 6.21%2018: 16.31%2019: 26.09%2020: 20.5%2021: 31.79%2022: 37.88%2023: 26.98%2024: 35.37%
Change over the period: +35.37 pp Annual average: 1.47 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Namibia 35.37%
World computed 6.94%
Sub-Saharan Africa computed 4.83%
Southern Africa computed 7.47%
Solar share of electricity — Namibia, by year Namibia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 35.37 +8.39 pp
2023 26.98 −10.9 pp
2022 37.88 +6.09 pp
2021 31.79 +11.29 pp
2020 20.5 −5.59 pp
2019 26.09 +9.78 pp
2018 16.31 +10.1 pp
2017 6.21 +2.16 pp
2016 4.05 +1.52 pp
2015 2.53 +0.57 pp
2014 1.96 +0.48 pp
2013 1.48 +0.88 pp
2012 0.6 −0.09 pp
2011 0.69 −0.07 pp
2010 0.76 +0.09 pp
2009 0.67 +0.67 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

Southern Africa, 2024

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

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.