Solar share of electricity — all countries

Solar share of electricity — Zimbabwe

Solar share of electricity in Zimbabwe in 2024 — 0.39%. Ranked 151 in the world out of 195. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 0.39 pp.

2024 0.39% +0.09 pp vs 2023
World rank 151of 195
Period maximum 0.39%2024
Period minimum 0%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of generation

Solar share of electricity — Zimbabwe, 2000–202400.10.20.30.42000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 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: 0.1%2016: 0.14%2017: 0.13%2018: 0.11%2019: 0.24%2020: 0.3%2021: 0.23%2022: 0.34%2023: 0.3%2024: 0.39%
Change over the period: +0.39 pp Annual average: 0.02 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Zimbabwe 0.39%
World computed 6.94%
Sub-Saharan Africa computed 4.83%
Eastern Africa computed 1.53%
Solar share of electricity — Zimbabwe, by year Zimbabwe All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 0.39 +0.09 pp
2023 0.3 −0.04 pp
2022 0.34 +0.11 pp
2021 0.23 −0.07 pp
2020 0.3 +0.06 pp
2019 0.24 +0.13 pp
2018 0.11 −0.02 pp
2017 0.13 −0.01 pp
2016 0.14 +0.04 pp
2015 0.1 +0.1 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

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.