Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Panama

Solar share of electricity in Panama in 2024 — 7.37%. Ranked 62 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 7.37 pp.

2024 7.37% +0.73 pp vs 2023
World rank 62of 195
Period maximum 7.37%2024
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Panama, 2000–2024024682000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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%2013: 0%2014: 0.11%2015: 0.19%2016: 0.64%2017: 1.45%2018: 2.05%2019: 2.49%2020: 2.93%2021: 4.87%2022: 5.71%2023: 6.64%2024: 7.37%
Change over the period: +7.37 pp Annual average: 0.31 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Panama 7.37%
World computed 6.94%
Latin America & Caribbean computed 7.32%
Central America computed 7.04%
High-income countries computed 6.92%
Solar share of electricity — Panama, by year Panama All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 7.37 +0.73 pp
2023 6.64 +0.93 pp
2022 5.71 +0.84 pp
2021 4.87 +1.94 pp
2020 2.93 +0.44 pp
2019 2.49 +0.44 pp
2018 2.05 +0.6 pp
2017 1.45 +0.81 pp
2016 0.64 +0.45 pp
2015 0.19 +0.08 pp
2014 0.11 +0.11 pp
2013 0 +0 pp
2012 0 +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

Central America, 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.