Photovoltaic Power Potential (PVOUT)

Every edition in one file, one row per country per edition: solar-pv-potential-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

Every column in the newest file of Photovoltaic Power Potential (PVOUT): what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.

Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2020	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 power potential (PVOUT Level 1, kWh per kWp per day)pv_potentialHeadline	The headline figure: Practical solar power potential (kWh per kWp per day, long-term average).	Number · up to 4 decimals	2.5126Ireland5.3791Namibiamiddle 4.2728	208	0
Solar irradiation (GHI, kWh per m² per day)solar_irradiationMeasure	The sunlight reaching a flat surface on the ground, averaged over many years, in kilowatt-hours per square metre per day — the resource the solar power potential is drawn from.	Number · up to 4 decimals	2.5330Ireland6.4675Yemenmiddle 5.0959	207	0
Seasonality (highest month ÷ lowest month of solar output)seasonality_indexMeasure	How much solar output swings through the year: the best month’s output divided by the worst month’s. A value near 1 means steady output all year.	Number · up to 4 decimals	1.1474Haiti14.9727Norwaymiddle 1.4025	206	0
Area evaluated, where not the whole countryevaluated_areaLabel	Where the figure covers only part of the country, the part it covers; empty where the whole country was evaluated.	Text	—	2	202

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.

One edition, covering 209 countries.

Not in this dataset · 16 places this site covers

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

AnguillaChannel IslandsCook IslandsFaroe IslandsFinlandGibraltarGreenlandIcelandMonacoMontserratNiueNorthern CyprusSaint MartinSomalilandTaiwanVatican City

1. 1 · Publisher

   World Bank Group (ESMAP), data by Solargis

   globalsolaratlas.info

2. 2 · Their file

   Global Photovoltaic Power Potential by Country (March 2020)

   solargis_pvpotential_countryranking_2020_data.xlsx

3. 3 · Read by this site

   September 29, 2026

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

4. 4 · Stored as

   1 file, one per edition

   It downloads as a CSV: solar-pv-potential-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

5. 5 · Used on

   Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

   /statistics/solar-pv-potential

From the World Bank and ESMAP’s Global Photovoltaic Power Potential by Country study, with data by Solargis, read from the workbook on the World Bank’s Data Catalog. Only Solargis’s own columns are used; the other publishers’ figures in the same sheet are left out.

• Charted

  Photovoltaic Power Potential (PVOUT) by country

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

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  • Energy

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