Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Eastern Europe

Solar share of electricity in Eastern Europe in 2025 — 3.07%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 3.07 pp.

2025 3.07% +0.46 pp vs 2024
World rank
Period maximum 3.07%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Eastern Europe, 2000–2025012342000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0.01%2010: 0.04%2011: 0.16%2012: 0.22%2013: 0.29%2014: 0.37%2015: 0.42%2016: 0.42%2017: 0.46%2018: 0.51%2019: 0.72%2020: 1.07%2021: 1.27%2022: 1.61%2023: 1.85%2024: 2.6%2025: 3.07%
Change over the period: +3.07 pp Annual average: 0.12 pp
Solar share of electricity — Eastern Europe, by year Eastern Europe All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 3.07 +0.46 pp
2024 2.6 +0.75 pp
2023 1.85 +0.24 pp
2022 1.61 +0.34 pp
2021 1.27 +0.2 pp
2020 1.07 +0.36 pp
2019 0.72 +0.2 pp
2018 0.51 +0.06 pp
2017 0.46 +0.04 pp
2016 0.42 −0 pp
2015 0.42 +0.05 pp
2014 0.37 +0.08 pp
2013 0.29 +0.08 pp
2012 0.22 +0.06 pp
2011 0.16 +0.12 pp
2010 0.04 +0.03 pp
2009 0.01 +0.01 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.