Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Samoa

Solar share of electricity in Samoa in 2024 — 18.75%. Ranked 15 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 18.75 pp.

2024 18.75% +5.42 pp vs 2023
World rank 15of 195
Period maximum 18.75%2024
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Samoa, 2000–2024051015202000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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: 7.69%2016: 13.33%2017: 12.5%2018: 13.33%2019: 11.76%2020: 11.11%2021: 11.76%2022: 12.5%2023: 13.33%2024: 18.75%
Change over the period: +18.75 pp Annual average: 0.78 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Samoa 18.75%
World computed 6.94%
East Asia & Pacific computed 7.81%
Solar share of electricity — Samoa, by year Samoa All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 18.75 +5.42 pp
2023 13.33 +0.83 pp
2022 12.5 +0.74 pp
2021 11.76 +0.65 pp
2020 11.11 −0.65 pp
2019 11.76 −1.57 pp
2018 13.33 +0.83 pp
2017 12.5 −0.83 pp
2016 13.33 +5.64 pp
2015 7.69 +7.69 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

Polynesia, 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.