Solar power generated in Bangladesh grew from 2.2 kWh per person in 2019 to 8.9 kWh in 2025, a rise of about four times. Starting from so low a base, it still made up only about 1.5% of the electricity generated per person in 2025 (8.9 of roughly 589 kWh), up from 0.4% in 2019.
8.9 kWh vs 133.9 kWh
Solar electricity generated per person in 2025: Bangladesh vs India.
Neighbours have moved faster. Between 2019 and 2025, solar output per person rose from 27.0 to 133.9 kWh in India and from 11.3 to 143.4 kWh in Pakistan, 15 and 16 times Bangladesh’s 2025 level. Viet Nam, which started from 49.6 kWh, reached 226.8 kWh. Bangladesh’s rise (about 4.0 times) is smaller than Pakistan’s (12.7 times), India’s (5.0 times) or Viet Nam’s (4.6 times).
The same dataset shows where the rest of Bangladesh’s electricity comes from in 2025: gas at 378 kWh per person, coal at 127 kWh and oil at 71 kWh, with hydropower at 3.7 kWh. Solar has now passed hydropower, but the system remains overwhelmingly fossil-fuelled, which ties electricity supply to imported and costly fuels.
The figures measure electricity generation as compiled by Our World in Data from its underlying sources; they are per-person averages and say nothing about how far rooftop or off-grid systems are captured. For policy, the comparison suggests that Bangladesh’s solar potential is largely untapped, and that the pace of recent growth is well short of what its peers have managed.
Source: Our World in Data, “Electricity generation per person by source” (per-capita-electricity-source-stacked), compiled from the original sources named there, 2019–2025. Shares and ratios are DEEPLAB calculations.