Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Nigeria

Solar share of electricity in Nigeria in 2025 — 0.31%. Ranked 79 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 0.31 pp.

2025 0.31% −0.04 pp vs 2024
World rank 79of 91
Period maximum 0.35%2024
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Nigeria, 2000–202500.10.20.30.42000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0%2010: 0%2011: 0%2012: 0.07%2013: 0.07%2014: 0.06%2015: 0.09%2016: 0.08%2017: 0.09%2018: 0.11%2019: 0.14%2020: 0.21%2021: 0.26%2022: 0.26%2023: 0.27%2024: 0.35%2025: 0.31%
Change over the period: +0.31 pp Annual average: 0.01 pp
Solar share of electricity — Nigeria, by year Nigeria All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 0.31 −0.04 pp
2024 0.35 +0.08 pp
2023 0.27 +0.01 pp
2022 0.26 +0 pp
2021 0.26 +0.05 pp
2020 0.21 +0.07 pp
2019 0.14 +0.03 pp
2018 0.11 +0.02 pp
2017 0.09 +0.01 pp
2016 0.08 −0.01 pp
2015 0.09 +0.03 pp
2014 0.06 −0.01 pp
2013 0.07 +0 pp
2012 0.07 +0.07 pp
2011 0 +0 pp
2010 0 +0 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.