Solar PV capacity - new installations worldwide by country 2021
construction of photovoltaic systems added 26.9 gigawatt in that year.
In 2021, China installed the largest share of the world’s new solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity, at 31 percent of the total capacity. This was a smaller share than it had in 2018, when despite reduced feed-in-tariff (FIT) payments and certain policy changes, China was able to surpass its national solar capacity target for 2020. In comparison, the United States installed 15 percent of the world’s 182 gigawatts of capacity additions, the country's