Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Somalia

Solar share of electricity in Somalia in 2024 — 18.6%. Ranked 16 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 18.6 pp.

2024 18.6% +1.93 pp vs 2023
World rank 16of 195
Period maximum 18.6%2024
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Somalia, 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: 0%2016: 2.78%2017: 2.7%2018: 2.7%2019: 2.7%2020: 5.41%2021: 7.89%2022: 16.67%2023: 16.67%2024: 18.6%
Change over the period: +18.6 pp Annual average: 0.78 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Somalia 18.6%
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 — Somalia, by year Somalia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 18.6 +1.93 pp
2023 16.67 +0 pp
2022 16.67 +8.78 pp
2021 7.89 +2.48 pp
2020 5.41 +2.71 pp
2019 2.7 +0 pp
2018 2.7 +0 pp
2017 2.7 −0.08 pp
2016 2.78 +2.78 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.