Solar Electricity Installed Capacity

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: solar-capacity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Solar Electricity Installed Capacity: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2024	Distinct	Empty	Spread
CountrycountryName	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	209	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	209	0
Solar generating capacity installed (gigawatts)solar_capacity_gwHeadline	The headline figure: Solar generating capacity installed (gigawatts).	Number · up to 9 decimals	0.0000006 share it886.660000Chinamiddle 0.144000	166	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

The newest 12 of 25 years.

Not in this dataset · 16 places this site covers

EIA gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AndorraAnguillaChannel IslandsCuraçaoIsle of ManLiechtensteinMarshall IslandsMonacoNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauSaint MartinSan MarinoSint MaartenSomalilandVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)

   eia.gov

2. 2 · Their file

   Solar Electricity Installed Capacity 2024

   INTL.zip

3. 3 · Read by this site

   October 3, 2026

   Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

4. 4 · Stored as

   25 files, one per year

   Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as solar-capacity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/solar-capacity

From the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s International Energy Statistics, read from its public bulk download. The figures are the agency’s own estimates and differ from other compilers’, so they should not be mixed with them.

• Charted

  Solar Electricity Installed Capacity by country

  Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.

• Subjects

  • Energy
  • Environment & Sustainability

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