Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Yemen

Solar share of electricity in Yemen in 2024 — 11.24%. Ranked 35 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 11.24 pp.

2024 11.24% +1.08 pp vs 2023
World rank 35of 195
Period maximum 17.12%2021
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Yemen, 2000–2024051015202000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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: 0.13%2015: 2.08%2016: 3.33%2017: 4.69%2018: 13.75%2019: 14.63%2020: 16.67%2021: 17.12%2022: 16.83%2023: 10.16%2024: 11.24%
Change over the period: +11.24 pp Annual average: 0.47 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Yemen 11.24%
World computed 6.94%
Western Asia computed 4.72%
Low-income countries computed 2.95%
Solar share of electricity — Yemen, by year Yemen All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 11.24 +1.08 pp
2023 10.16 −6.67 pp
2022 16.83 −0.29 pp
2021 17.12 +0.45 pp
2020 16.67 +2.04 pp
2019 14.63 +0.88 pp
2018 13.75 +9.06 pp
2017 4.69 +1.36 pp
2016 3.33 +1.25 pp
2015 2.08 +1.95 pp
2014 0.13 +0.13 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.