Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Sweden

Solar share of electricity in Sweden in 2025 — 2.6%. Ranked 65 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 2.6 pp.

2025 2.6% +0.18 pp vs 2024
World rank 65of 91
Period maximum 2.6%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Sweden, 2000–202501232000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0.01%2010: 0.01%2011: 0.01%2012: 0.01%2013: 0.03%2014: 0.03%2015: 0.06%2016: 0.09%2017: 0.14%2018: 0.25%2019: 0.4%2020: 0.64%2021: 0.89%2022: 1.14%2023: 1.87%2024: 2.42%2025: 2.6%
Change over the period: +2.6 pp Annual average: 0.1 pp

Comparison, 2025

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

Sweden 2.6%
Europe & Central Asia computed 8.48%
Northern Europe computed 4.42%
Solar share of electricity — Sweden, by year Sweden All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 2.6 +0.18 pp
2024 2.42 +0.55 pp
2023 1.87 +0.73 pp
2022 1.14 +0.25 pp
2021 0.89 +0.25 pp
2020 0.64 +0.24 pp
2019 0.4 +0.15 pp
2018 0.25 +0.11 pp
2017 0.14 +0.05 pp
2016 0.09 +0.03 pp
2015 0.06 +0.03 pp
2014 0.03 +0 pp
2013 0.03 +0.02 pp
2012 0.01 +0 pp
2011 0.01 +0 pp
2010 0.01 +0 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.