Solar · % of the electricity mix · 1985–2024 · OWID (Energy Institute + Ember) · ~175 countries
Solar's share of each country's electricity production, as a percentage — annual data from 1985 to 2024.
Our World in Data (Energy Institute + Ember), solar_share_elec column — about 175 countries show a measurable solar share.
Time slider. Almost all of the world's solar growth postdates 2010: earlier years show a nearly entirely grey map.
The Cook Islands (50%), a small Pacific archipelago with no interconnected grid, lead ahead of Palestine (39%) and Namibia (35%) — the solar hierarchy isn't one of sunshine but of grid size: the smaller the grid, the more a handful of panel fields can dominate the total.