Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Taiwan

Solar share of electricity in Taiwan in 2025 — 5.59%. Ranked 50 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 5.59 pp.

2025 5.59% +0.43 pp vs 2024
World rank 50of 91
Period maximum 5.59%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Taiwan, 2000–202502462000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0%2010: 0.01%2011: 0.02%2012: 0.06%2013: 0.13%2014: 0.2%2015: 0.33%2016: 0.42%2017: 0.62%2018: 0.98%2019: 1.47%2020: 2.17%2021: 2.74%2022: 3.71%2023: 4.57%2024: 5.16%2025: 5.59%
Change over the period: +5.59 pp Annual average: 0.22 pp

Comparison, 2025

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

Taiwan 5.59%
Eastern Asia computed 10.62%
Solar share of electricity — Taiwan, by year Taiwan All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 5.59 +0.43 pp
2024 5.16 +0.59 pp
2023 4.57 +0.86 pp
2022 3.71 +0.97 pp
2021 2.74 +0.57 pp
2020 2.17 +0.7 pp
2019 1.47 +0.49 pp
2018 0.98 +0.36 pp
2017 0.62 +0.2 pp
2016 0.42 +0.09 pp
2015 0.33 +0.13 pp
2014 0.2 +0.07 pp
2013 0.13 +0.07 pp
2012 0.06 +0.04 pp
2011 0.02 +0.01 pp
2010 0.01 +0.01 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

Eastern Asia, 2025

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

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.