Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Australia and New Zealand

Solar share of electricity in Australia and New Zealand in 2025 — 17.21%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 17.19 pp.

2025 17.21% +1.67 pp vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 17.21%2025
Period minimum 0.02%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Australia and New Zealand, 2000–2025051015202000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0.02%2001: 0.02%2002: 0.03%2003: 0.03%2004: 0.03%2005: 0.03%2006: 0.03%2007: 0.04%2008: 0.05%2009: 0.1%2010: 0.33%2011: 0.68%2012: 0.82%2013: 1.32%2014: 1.71%2015: 2.1%2016: 2.49%2017: 2.97%2018: 4.05%2019: 5.95%2020: 7.78%2021: 10.09%2022: 11.96%2023: 14.35%2024: 15.53%2025: 17.21%
Change over the period: +17.19 pp Annual average: 0.69 pp
Solar share of electricity — Australia and New Zealand, by year Australia and New Zealand All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 17.21 +1.67 pp
2024 15.53 +1.18 pp
2023 14.35 +2.39 pp
2022 11.96 +1.86 pp
2021 10.09 +2.32 pp
2020 7.78 +1.83 pp
2019 5.95 +1.9 pp
2018 4.05 +1.08 pp
2017 2.97 +0.48 pp
2016 2.49 +0.39 pp
2015 2.1 +0.38 pp
2014 1.71 +0.39 pp
2013 1.32 +0.5 pp
2012 0.82 +0.13 pp
2011 0.68 +0.35 pp
2010 0.33 +0.23 pp
2009 0.1 +0.05 pp
2008 0.05 +0.01 pp
2007 0.04 +0.01 pp
2006 0.03 +0.01 pp
2005 0.03 +0 pp
2004 0.03 −0 pp
2003 0.03 +0 pp
2002 0.03 +0.01 pp
2001 0.02 +0 pp
2000 0.02

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.