Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Caribbean

Solar share of electricity in the Caribbean in 2024 — 3.68%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 3.68 pp.

2024 3.68% +0.37 pp vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 3.68%2024
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Caribbean, 2000–2024012342000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0.01%2009: 0.03%2010: 0.05%2011: 0.09%2012: 0.24%2013: 0.41%2014: 0.46%2015: 0.58%2016: 0.67%2017: 0.82%2018: 1.2%2019: 1.72%2020: 2.27%2021: 2.72%2022: 3.41%2023: 3.32%2024: 3.68%
Change over the period: +3.68 pp Annual average: 0.15 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Caribbean 3.68%
World computed 6.94%
Solar share of electricity — Caribbean, by year Caribbean All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 3.68 +0.37 pp
2023 3.32 −0.09 pp
2022 3.41 +0.69 pp
2021 2.72 +0.45 pp
2020 2.27 +0.55 pp
2019 1.72 +0.52 pp
2018 1.2 +0.37 pp
2017 0.82 +0.16 pp
2016 0.67 +0.09 pp
2015 0.58 +0.12 pp
2014 0.46 +0.05 pp
2013 0.41 +0.17 pp
2012 0.24 +0.15 pp
2011 0.09 +0.04 pp
2010 0.05 +0.02 pp
2009 0.03 +0.01 pp
2008 0.01 +0.01 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.