Top 10 World's Biggest PV Markets

The table below shows the Top 10 of the world's largest solar PV markets, sorted by installed capacity for 2010 and sorted by total cumulative installed capacity.

All data was retrieved from annual reports and releases by the respective countries' photovoltaic associations, in some cases supplemented with data from EPIA and Eurobserv/ER.

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Top 10 Solar PV Markets, sorted by Capacity installed in 2010 (kw)
	Country	2008	2009	2010	Cumulative
1.	Germany	1,992,000	3,806,700	7,390,922	17,294,000
2.	Italy	338,000	717,000	2,319,000	3,500,000
3.	Czech Republic	49,000	411,000	1,151,000	1,616,000
4.	Japan	225,295	482,976	990,979	3,618,144
5.	USA	338,000	464,500	918,000	2,549,000
6.	France	105,000	250,000	719,000	1,025,000
7.	China	20,000	160,000	400,000	650,000
8.	Spain	2,708,000	17,000	392,000	3,807,000
9.	Australia	22,010	83,140	383,300	570,930
10.	Belgium	76,900	488,396	357,860	948,699

1.BNA 2. GSE 3. EPIA 4. NEDO & RTS Corp 5. US DEO & NREL 6. ADEME , Eurobserv/ER 7. SEMI 8. ASIF 9. APVA 10. VREG , CWaPE

Top 10 Solar PV Markets, sorted by Cumulative capacity (kw)
	Country	2008	2009	2010	Cumulative
1.	Germany	1,992,000	3,806,700	7,390,922	17,294,000
2.	Spain	2,708,000	17,000	392,000	3,807,000
3.	Japan	225,295	482,976	990,979	3,618,144
4.	Italy	338,000	717,000	2,319,000	3,500,000
5.	USA	338,000	464,500	918,000	2,549,000
6.	Czech Republic	49,000	411,000	1,151,000	1,616,000
7.	France	105,000	250,000	719,000	1,025,000
8.	Belgium	76,900	488,396	357,860	948,699
9.	Korea	276,324	166,838	131,200	655,555
10.	China	20,000	160,000	400,000	650,000

1.BNA 2. ASIF 3. NEDO & RTS Corp 4. GSE 5. US DEO & NREL 6. EPIA 7. ADEME , Eurobserv/ER 8. VREG , CWaPE 9. KIER & KOPIA 10. SEMI

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