Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Melanesia

Solar share of electricity in Melanesia in 2024 — 3.18%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 3.18 pp.

2024 3.18% +0.24 pp vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 3.18%2024
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Melanesia, 2000–2024012342000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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: 0.12%2016: 0.22%2017: 0.46%2018: 0.77%2019: 1.57%2020: 1.98%2021: 2.31%2022: 3.02%2023: 2.95%2024: 3.18%
Change over the period: +3.18 pp Annual average: 0.13 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Melanesia 3.18%
World computed 6.94%
Solar share of electricity — Melanesia, by year Melanesia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 3.18 +0.24 pp
2023 2.95 −0.07 pp
2022 3.02 +0.71 pp
2021 2.31 +0.33 pp
2020 1.98 +0.41 pp
2019 1.57 +0.8 pp
2018 0.77 +0.31 pp
2017 0.46 +0.24 pp
2016 0.22 +0.11 pp
2015 0.12 +0.12 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.