Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Senegal

Solar share of electricity in Senegal in 2024 — 8.91%. Ranked 48 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 8.91 pp.

2024 8.91% +1.71 pp vs 2023
World rank 48of 195
Period maximum 8.91%2024
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Senegal, 2000–202402.557.5102000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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: 0%2016: 0.21%2017: 1.91%2018: 5.06%2019: 5.67%2020: 6.27%2021: 8.11%2022: 8.24%2023: 7.2%2024: 8.91%
Change over the period: +8.91 pp Annual average: 0.37 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Senegal 8.91%
World computed 6.94%
Sub-Saharan Africa computed 4.83%
Western Africa computed 1.81%
Solar share of electricity — Senegal, by year Senegal All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 8.91 +1.71 pp
2023 7.2 −1.04 pp
2022 8.24 +0.13 pp
2021 8.11 +1.84 pp
2020 6.27 +0.6 pp
2019 5.67 +0.61 pp
2018 5.06 +3.15 pp
2017 1.91 +1.7 pp
2016 0.21 +0.21 pp
2015 0 +0 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.