Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — NATO

Solar share of electricity in NATO in 2025 — 9.36%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 9.35 pp.

2025 9.36% +1.69 pp vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 9.36%2025
Period minimum 0.01%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — NATO, 2000–202502.557.5102000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0.01%2001: 0.01%2002: 0.01%2003: 0.01%2004: 0.01%2005: 0.02%2006: 0.04%2007: 0.05%2008: 0.1%2009: 0.19%2010: 0.3%2011: 0.6%2012: 0.93%2013: 1.16%2014: 1.55%2015: 1.8%2016: 2.02%2017: 2.4%2018: 2.71%2019: 3.05%2020: 3.69%2021: 4.22%2022: 5.26%2023: 6.34%2024: 7.67%2025: 9.36%
Change over the period: +9.35 pp Annual average: 0.37 pp
Solar share of electricity — NATO, by year NATO All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 9.36 +1.69 pp
2024 7.67 +1.33 pp
2023 6.34 +1.08 pp
2022 5.26 +1.04 pp
2021 4.22 +0.53 pp
2020 3.69 +0.65 pp
2019 3.05 +0.34 pp
2018 2.71 +0.31 pp
2017 2.4 +0.38 pp
2016 2.02 +0.22 pp
2015 1.8 +0.24 pp
2014 1.55 +0.4 pp
2013 1.16 +0.23 pp
2012 0.93 +0.33 pp
2011 0.6 +0.3 pp
2010 0.3 +0.11 pp
2009 0.19 +0.09 pp
2008 0.1 +0.05 pp
2007 0.05 +0.02 pp
2006 0.04 +0.01 pp
2005 0.02 +0.01 pp
2004 0.01 +0 pp
2003 0.01 +0 pp
2002 0.01 +0 pp
2001 0.01 +0 pp
2000 0.01

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.