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Solar share of electricity — Zambia

Solar share of electricity in Zambia in 2024 — 0.86%. Ranked 134 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 0.86 pp.

2024 0.86% +0.09 pp vs 2023
World rank 134of 195
Period maximum 0.98%2020
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Zambia, 2000–202400.250.50.7512000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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%2016: 0%2017: 0%2018: 0%2019: 0.81%2020: 0.98%2021: 0.85%2022: 0.72%2023: 0.77%2024: 0.86%
Change over the period: +0.86 pp Annual average: 0.04 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Zambia 0.86%
World computed 6.94%
Sub-Saharan Africa computed 4.83%
Eastern Africa computed 1.53%
Lower-middle-income countries computed 5.6%
Solar share of electricity — Zambia, by year Zambia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 0.86 +0.09 pp
2023 0.77 +0.05 pp
2022 0.72 −0.13 pp
2021 0.85 −0.13 pp
2020 0.98 +0.17 pp
2019 0.81 +0.81 pp
2018 0 +0 pp
2017 0 +0 pp
2016 0 +0 pp
2015 0 +0 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 —

Eastern Africa, 2024

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

SO Somalia 18.6 SC Seychelles 14.29 ER Eritrea 11.11 MU Mauritius 4.99 KE Kenya 4.98 MG Madagascar 4.12 RW Rwanda 3.54 UG Uganda 2.93 SS South Sudan 1.79 ZM Zambia 0.86 MW Malawi 0.55 TZ Tanzania 0.45 MZ Mozambique 0.4 ZW Zimbabwe 0.39 ET Ethiopia 0.16 BI Burundi 0 DJ Djibouti 0
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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.

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