Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Rwanda

Solar share of electricity in Rwanda in 2024 — 3.54%. Ranked 94 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 3.54 pp.

2024 3.54% −0.1 pp vs 2023
World rank 94of 195
Period maximum 4%2021
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Rwanda, 2000–2024012342000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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%2015: 1.96%2016: 3.13%2017: 3.08%2018: 3.66%2019: 3.53%2020: 3.37%2021: 4%2022: 3.85%2023: 3.64%2024: 3.54%
Change over the period: +3.54 pp Annual average: 0.15 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Rwanda 3.54%
World computed 6.94%
Sub-Saharan Africa computed 4.83%
Eastern Africa computed 1.53%
Low-income countries computed 2.95%
Solar share of electricity — Rwanda, by year Rwanda All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 3.54 −0.1 pp
2023 3.64 −0.21 pp
2022 3.85 −0.15 pp
2021 4 +0.63 pp
2020 3.37 −0.16 pp
2019 3.53 −0.13 pp
2018 3.66 +0.58 pp
2017 3.08 −0.05 pp
2016 3.13 +1.17 pp
2015 1.96 +1.96 pp
2014 0 +0 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

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.