Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Uruguay

Solar share of electricity in Uruguay in 2025 — 5.11%. Ranked 52 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 5.11 pp.

2025 5.11% +0.92 pp vs 2024
World rank 52of 91
Period maximum 5.11%2025
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2025 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Uruguay, 2000–202502462000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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: 0%2015: 0.36%2016: 1.08%2017: 1.88%2018: 2.81%2019: 2.61%2020: 3.39%2021: 3%2022: 3.36%2023: 3.82%2024: 4.19%2025: 5.11%
Change over the period: +5.11 pp Annual average: 0.2 pp

Comparison, 2025

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

Uruguay 5.11%
South America computed 9.87%
Solar share of electricity — Uruguay, by year Uruguay All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2025 5.11 +0.92 pp
2024 4.19 +0.37 pp
2023 3.82 +0.46 pp
2022 3.36 +0.36 pp
2021 3 −0.39 pp
2020 3.39 +0.78 pp
2019 2.61 −0.2 pp
2018 2.81 +0.93 pp
2017 1.88 +0.8 pp
2016 1.08 +0.72 pp
2015 0.36 +0.36 pp
2014 0 +0 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

South America, 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.