Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Eastern Asia

Solar share of electricity in Eastern Asia in 2025 — 10.62%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 10.61 pp.

2025 10.62% +2.48 pp vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 10.62%2025
Period minimum 0.01%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Eastern Asia, 2000–20250510152000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0.01%2001: 0.02%2002: 0.02%2003: 0.03%2004: 0.03%2005: 0.04%2006: 0.04%2007: 0.05%2008: 0.05%2009: 0.07%2010: 0.09%2011: 0.14%2012: 0.18%2013: 0.31%2014: 0.65%2015: 1.03%2016: 1.44%2017: 2.11%2018: 2.73%2019: 3.27%2020: 3.74%2021: 4.22%2022: 5.16%2023: 6.36%2024: 8.14%2025: 10.62%
Change over the period: +10.61 pp Annual average: 0.42 pp
Solar share of electricity — Eastern Asia, by year Eastern Asia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 10.62 +2.48 pp
2024 8.14 +1.78 pp
2023 6.36 +1.21 pp
2022 5.16 +0.94 pp
2021 4.22 +0.48 pp
2020 3.74 +0.46 pp
2019 3.27 +0.54 pp
2018 2.73 +0.63 pp
2017 2.11 +0.67 pp
2016 1.44 +0.41 pp
2015 1.03 +0.37 pp
2014 0.65 +0.34 pp
2013 0.31 +0.14 pp
2012 0.18 +0.04 pp
2011 0.14 +0.05 pp
2010 0.09 +0.02 pp
2009 0.07 +0.02 pp
2008 0.05 +0.01 pp
2007 0.05 +0 pp
2006 0.04 +0.01 pp
2005 0.04 +0.01 pp
2004 0.03 +0 pp
2003 0.03 +0.01 pp
2002 0.02 +0 pp
2001 0.02 +0.01 pp
2000 0.01

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.