Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Nepal

Solar share of electricity in Nepal in 2024 — 1.08%. Ranked 129 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 1.08 pp.

2024 1.08% +0.15 pp vs 2023
World rank 129of 195
Period maximum 1.75%2017
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Nepal, 2000–202400.511.522000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0%2010: 0.31%2011: 0.29%2012: 0.28%2013: 0.57%2014: 0.53%2015: 0.58%2016: 0.48%2017: 1.75%2018: 1.65%2019: 1.3%2020: 1.29%2021: 0.93%2022: 0.93%2023: 0.93%2024: 1.08%
Change over the period: +1.08 pp Annual average: 0.05 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Nepal 1.08%
World computed 6.94%
South Asia computed 7.1%
Southern Asia computed 6.1%
Solar share of electricity — Nepal, by year Nepal All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 1.08 +0.15 pp
2023 0.93 +0 pp
2022 0.93 +0 pp
2021 0.93 −0.36 pp
2020 1.29 −0.01 pp
2019 1.3 −0.35 pp
2018 1.65 −0.1 pp
2017 1.75 +1.27 pp
2016 0.48 −0.1 pp
2015 0.58 +0.05 pp
2014 0.53 −0.04 pp
2013 0.57 +0.29 pp
2012 0.28 −0.01 pp
2011 0.29 −0.02 pp
2010 0.31 +0.31 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

Southern Asia, 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.