Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Tanzania

Solar share of electricity in Tanzania in 2024 — 0.45%. Ranked 147 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 0.45 pp.

2024 0.45% +0.17 pp vs 2023
World rank 147of 195
Period maximum 0.57%2017
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Tanzania, 2000–202400.20.40.62000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0%2007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0%2010: 0.19%2011: 0.19%2012: 0.18%2013: 0.17%2014: 0.32%2015: 0.31%2016: 0.44%2017: 0.57%2018: 0.41%2019: 0.39%2020: 0.38%2021: 0.35%2022: 0.31%2023: 0.28%2024: 0.45%
Change over the period: +0.45 pp Annual average: 0.02 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Tanzania 0.45%
World computed 6.94%
Sub-Saharan Africa computed 4.83%
Eastern Africa computed 1.53%
Solar share of electricity — Tanzania, by year Tanzania All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 0.45 +0.17 pp
2023 0.28 −0.03 pp
2022 0.31 −0.04 pp
2021 0.35 −0.03 pp
2020 0.38 −0.01 pp
2019 0.39 −0.02 pp
2018 0.41 −0.16 pp
2017 0.57 +0.13 pp
2016 0.44 +0.13 pp
2015 0.31 −0.01 pp
2014 0.32 +0.15 pp
2013 0.17 −0.01 pp
2012 0.18 −0.01 pp
2011 0.19 +0 pp
2010 0.19 +0.19 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.