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World Solar share of electricity Ranking Map In the available data, Cook Islands has the highest recorded value at 50% (rank #1); Japan ranks #52 at 9.8%. Coverage: 213 countries and territories. Reference years: Cook Islands 2024; Japan 2025. This is solar generation as a share of total electricity generation, not installed capacity or all final energy use.
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Compare solar share of electricity across the world. Compare solar share of electricity by country on a ten-level world heat map. Explore the top and bottom five, the full ranking and country details.
Japan 9.8%
Japan, world rank 52 for Solar share of electricity, 9.8%
Fiji: 0.9% Tanzania: 0.5% Western Sahara: 0% Canada: 1.6% United States: 8.6% Kazakhstan: 1.7% Uzbekistan: 7.5% Papua New Guinea: 0.2% Indonesia: 0.4% Argentina: 3.4% Chile: 25.1% Democratic Republic of the Congo: 15.8% Somalia: 18.6% Kenya: 4.6% Sudan: 1.1% Chad: 0% Haiti: 0% Dominican Republic: 9.9% Russia: 0.2% Bahamas: 0.9% Falkland Islands: 0% Norway: 0.3% Greenland: 0% Fr. S. Antarctic Lands: No data Timor-Leste: 0% South Africa: 8% Lesotho: 0% Mexico: 7.4% Uruguay: 5.1% Brazil: 11.8% Bolivia: 2.9% Peru: 3% Colombia: 5.1% Panama: 7.4% Costa Rica: 0.7% Nicaragua: 0.7% Honduras: 9.5% El Salvador: 20.3% Guatemala: 1.8% Belize: 2.1% Venezuela: 0% Guyana: 1.5% Suriname: 0.6% France: 5.6% Ecuador: 0.1% Puerto Rico: 4.9% Jamaica: 3.1% Cuba: 1.2% Zimbabwe: 0.4% Botswana: 0.3% Namibia: 35.4% Senegal: 8.9% Mali: 2.9% Mauritania: 7.7% Benin: 4% Niger: 3.2% Nigeria: 0.3% Cameroon: 0.6% Togo: 18.3% Ghana: 0.7% Côte d’Ivoire: 0.2% Guinea: 0.7% Guinea-Bissau: 0% Liberia: 1.8% Sierra Leone: 9.5% Burkina Faso: 6.5% Central African Republic: 0% Republic of the Congo: 0.2% Gabon: 0% Equatorial Guinea: 0% Zambia: 0.9% Malawi: 0.6% Mozambique: 0.4% Eswatini: 4.9% Angola: 2.8% Burundi: 0% Israel: 16.2% Lebanon: 30% Madagascar: 4.1% Palestine: 39.4% Gambia: 0% Tunisia: 2.5% Algeria: 1% Jordan: 16.6% United Arab Emirates: 8.6% Qatar: 3.8% Kuwait: 0.2% Iraq: 0.3% Oman: 4.4% Vanuatu: 12.5% Cambodia: 10.6% Thailand: 5.3% Laos: 0.2% Myanmar: 0.6% Vietnam: 7.4% North Korea: 0.6% South Korea: 6.1% Mongolia: 2.2% India: 9.4% Bangladesh: 1.5% Bhutan: 0% Nepal: 1.1% Pakistan: 18.8% Afghanistan: 11.1% Tajikistan: 0% Kyrgyzstan: 0% Turkmenistan: 0% Iran: 0.2% Syria: 0.4% Armenia: 11% Sweden: 2.6% Belarus: 0.8% Ukraine: 4.6% Poland: 11.3% Austria: 14.1% Hungary: 27.3% Moldova: 2.6% Romania: 9.8% Lithuania: 18.8% Latvia: 13.1% Estonia: 18.5% Germany: 17.9% Bulgaria: 18.2% Greece: 22.2% Türkiye: 10.5% Albania: 4.1% Croatia: 8.8% Switzerland: 12.1% Luxembourg: 30.5% Belgium: 14.3% Netherlands: 21.1% Portugal: 17.3% Spain: 21.9% Ireland: 4.8% New Caledonia: 8.3% Solomon Islands: 9.1% New Zealand: 0.9% Australia: 19.6% Sri Lanka: 16.5% China: 11.1% Taiwan: 5.4% Italy: 16.9% Denmark: 13.4% United Kingdom: 6.6% Iceland: 0.1% Azerbaijan: 0% Georgia: 0.2% Philippines: 2.4% Malaysia: 2.2% Brunei: 0.2% Slovenia: 10.4% Finland: 1.2% Slovakia: 2.4% Czechia: 5.8% Eritrea: 11.1% Japan: 9.8% Paraguay: 0% Yemen: 11.2% Saudi Arabia: 1.8% Antarctica: No data N. Cyprus: No data Cyprus: 23.2% Morocco: 5.8% Egypt: 3.1% Libya: 0% Ethiopia: 0.1% Djibouti: 0% Somaliland: No data Uganda: 2.9% Rwanda: 3.5% Bosnia and Herzegovina: 4.1% North Macedonia: 23.8% Serbia: 0.4% Montenegro: 5.7% Kosovo: No data Trinidad and Tobago: 0.1% South Sudan: 1.8% Japan Palestine 2 Namibia 3 Luxembourg 4 Lebanon 5 Western Sahara 181 Tajikistan 181 Turkmenistan 181 Chile Spain El Salvador Move map ⛶ Expand map+ − Reset
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View Japan's profile and all rankings→ Solar share of electricityRankings 52/213 9.8%
Area 377,969 km² World # 63
Population 123,366,734 people World # 12 Did you know? Japan ranks #52 for solar share of electricity. Switch themes to see how the same country changes across the map.
1 Cook Islands 50% 2 Palestine 39.4% 3 Namibia 35.4% 4 Luxembourg 30.5% 5 Lebanon 30%
181 Turkmenistan 0% 181 Tajikistan 0% 181 Western Sahara 0% 181 Sao Tome and Principe 0% 181 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 0% 02 / ABOUT THIS DATA
How to read the Solar share of electricity ranking map Compare solar share of electricity by country on a ten-level world heat map. Explore the top and bottom five, the full ranking and country details. This page orders 213 countries and territories by value and divides the ranking into ten map colors.
Top 3 #1 Cook Islands (50%), #2 Palestine (39.4%), #3 Namibia (35.4%)
Japan’s position World #52 (9.8%)
Data period 2009–2025 Reference years differ by country. Compare each value with the year and source shown in the country card.
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Solar share of electricity Full ranking213 countries #30 Democratic Republic of the Congo 15.8% Profile #100 Bosnia and Herzegovina 4.1% Profile #104 Turks and Caicos Islands 3.7% Profile #171 Republic of the Congo 0.2% Profile #181 British Virgin Islands 0% Profile #181 Central African Republic 0% Profile #181 Saint Pierre and Miquelon 0% Profile #181 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 0% Profile