Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Pakistan

Solar share of electricity in Pakistan in 2025 — 20.67%. Ranked 8 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 20.67 pp.

2025 20.67% +8.04 pp vs 2024
World rank 8of 91
Period maximum 20.67%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Pakistan, 2000–202501020302000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0%2010: 0.01%2011: 0.03%2012: 0.07%2013: 0.13%2014: 0.22%2015: 0.34%2016: 0.55%2017: 0.71%2018: 0.71%2019: 1.93%2020: 3.02%2021: 3.9%2022: 5.08%2023: 7.66%2024: 12.63%2025: 20.67%
Change over the period: +20.67 pp Annual average: 0.83 pp
Solar share of electricity — Pakistan, by year Pakistan All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 20.67 +8.04 pp
2024 12.63 +4.97 pp
2023 7.66 +2.58 pp
2022 5.08 +1.18 pp
2021 3.9 +0.88 pp
2020 3.02 +1.09 pp
2019 1.93 +1.22 pp
2018 0.71 +0 pp
2017 0.71 +0.16 pp
2016 0.55 +0.21 pp
2015 0.34 +0.12 pp
2014 0.22 +0.09 pp
2013 0.13 +0.06 pp
2012 0.07 +0.04 pp
2011 0.03 +0.02 pp
2010 0.01 +0.01 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, 2025

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.