Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — United States Virgin Islands

Solar share of electricity in the United States Virgin Islands in 2023 — 2.94%. Ranked 93 in the world out of 210. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 2.94 pp.

2023 2.94% +0 pp vs 2022
World rank 93of 210
Period maximum 3.03%2021
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2023 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — United States Virgin Islands, 2000–2023012342000200320062009201220152018202120232000: 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: 1.28%2015: 1.28%2016: 1.3%2017: 1.67%2018: 1.61%2019: 1.52%2020: 1.56%2021: 3.03%2022: 2.94%2023: 2.94%
Change over the period: +2.94 pp Annual average: 0.13 pp

Comparison, 2023

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: United States Virgin Islands

United States Virgin Islands 2.94%
World computed 5.62%
Latin America & Caribbean computed 5.86%
Caribbean computed 3.32%
High-income countries computed 6%
Solar share of electricity — United States Virgin Islands, by year United States Virgin Islands All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2023 2.94 +0 pp
2022 2.94 −0.09 pp
2021 3.03 +1.47 pp
2020 1.56 +0.04 pp
2019 1.52 −0.09 pp
2018 1.61 −0.06 pp
2017 1.67 +0.37 pp
2016 1.3 +0.02 pp
2015 1.28 +0 pp
2014 1.28 +1.28 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.