Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — OPEC

Solar share of electricity in OPEC in 2024 — 1.72%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 1.72 pp.

2024 1.72% +0.36 pp vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 1.72%2024
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — OPEC, 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%2011: 0%2012: 0.01%2013: 0.02%2014: 0.04%2015: 0.04%2016: 0.05%2017: 0.13%2018: 0.2%2019: 0.42%2020: 0.63%2021: 0.69%2022: 0.79%2023: 1.36%2024: 1.72%
Change over the period: +1.72 pp Annual average: 0.07 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

OPEC 1.72%
World computed 6.94%
Solar share of electricity — OPEC, by year OPEC All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 1.72 +0.36 pp
2023 1.36 +0.57 pp
2022 0.79 +0.1 pp
2021 0.69 +0.06 pp
2020 0.63 +0.21 pp
2019 0.42 +0.22 pp
2018 0.2 +0.07 pp
2017 0.13 +0.08 pp
2016 0.05 +0 pp
2015 0.04 +0 pp
2014 0.04 +0.02 pp
2013 0.02 +0.01 pp
2012 0.01 +0 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.