Solar Share of Electricity Generation

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

Every column in the newest file of Solar Share of Electricity Generation: 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	—	165	0
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	165	0
Solar (% of generation)solar_shareHeadline	The headline figure: Solar (% of electricity generated).	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.00018 share it50.000Cook Islandsmiddle 3.049	144	0
Wind and solar (% of generation)wind_solar_shareMeasure	Share of the electricity generated that came from wind and solar power together, in per cent; the gap to the solar share is wind.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.00016 share it69.118Denmarkmiddle 5.279	147	0
Renewables (% of generation)renewable_shareMeasure	Share of the electricity generated that came from renewable sources — hydro, wind, solar, bioenergy and geothermal — in per cent.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.0004 share it100.0006 share itmiddle 32.062	154	0
Total generation (TWh)generation_twhMeasure	Total electricity generated in the country during the year, from all sources, in terawatt-hours.	Number · up to 3 decimals	0.01Montserrat10,025.01Chinamiddle 9.03	160	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 · 51 places this site covers

Ember 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.

AndorraAnguillaArgentinaAustraliaBermudaBosnia and HerzegovinaBrazilCanadaChannel IslandsCuraçaoEgyptEthiopiaGermanyGibraltarIndiaIndonesiaIranIsle of ManJapanKazakhstanKosovoLiechtensteinMalaysiaMarshall IslandsMexicoMicronesiaMonacoMoroccoNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauRussiaSaint MartinSan MarinoSaudi ArabiaSint MaartenSomalilandSouth AfricaSouth KoreaSri LankaSwitzerlandTaiwanThailandTimor-LesteTuvaluUkraineUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomVatican CityVietnam

1. 1 · Publisher

   Ember

   ember-energy.org

2. 2 · Their file

   Solar Share of Electricity Generation 2024

   release_generation_yearly_global.csv

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-electricity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/solar-electricity

From Ember’s Yearly Electricity Data, the same public download its own data explorer offers. The percentages are Ember’s own, not recomputed here. Some countries are not shown — India, Japan, Brazil, Canada, Russia, Germany and the United Kingdom among them — because Ember takes their figures from publishers whose terms do not allow reuse on a commercial site.

• Charted

  Solar Share of Electricity Generation by country

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

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  • Environment & Sustainability

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