Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Thailand

Solar share of electricity in Thailand in 2025 — 5.3%. Ranked 51 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 5.3 pp.

2025 5.3% +2.58 pp vs 2024
World rank 51of 91
Period maximum 5.3%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Thailand, 2000–202502462000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 0%2001: 0%2002: 0%2003: 0%2004: 0%2005: 0%2006: 0.03%2007: 0.03%2008: 0.03%2009: 0.03%2010: 0.04%2011: 0.06%2012: 0.3%2013: 0.75%2014: 1.11%2015: 1.34%2016: 1.97%2017: 2.57%2018: 2.55%2019: 2.76%2020: 2.85%2021: 2.83%2022: 2.79%2023: 2.7%2024: 2.72%2025: 5.3%
Change over the period: +5.3 pp Annual average: 0.21 pp
Solar share of electricity — Thailand, by year Thailand All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 5.3 +2.58 pp
2024 2.72 +0.02 pp
2023 2.7 −0.09 pp
2022 2.79 −0.04 pp
2021 2.83 −0.02 pp
2020 2.85 +0.09 pp
2019 2.76 +0.21 pp
2018 2.55 −0.02 pp
2017 2.57 +0.6 pp
2016 1.97 +0.63 pp
2015 1.34 +0.23 pp
2014 1.11 +0.36 pp
2013 0.75 +0.45 pp
2012 0.3 +0.24 pp
2011 0.06 +0.02 pp
2010 0.04 +0.01 pp
2009 0.03 +0 pp
2008 0.03 +0 pp
2007 0.03 +0 pp
2006 0.03 +0.03 pp
2005 0 +0 pp
2004 0 +0 pp
2003 0 +0 pp
2002 0 +0 pp
2001 0 +0 pp
2000 0

South-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.