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 2011 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 2011 (kw)
	Country	2009	2010	2011	Cumulative
1.	Italy	723,000	2,321,010	9,304,600	12,802,910
2.	Germany	3,806,700	7,390,922	7,500,243	24,794,243
3.	China	160,000	500,000	2,500,000	3,301,000
4.	USA	464,500	918,000	1,867,000	3,966,000
5.	France	250,000	719,146	1,634,100	2,831,400
6.	Japan	482,976	990,979	1,295,804	4,913,948
7.	UK	7,077	45,255	937,100	1,014,000
8.	Australia	83,140	383,300	837,000	1,407,940
9.	Belgium	493,700	376,500	614,100	1,587,000
10.	Greece	36,500	150,400	425,900	631,300

1.  ENEA/RSE 2. BNA 3. Solarbuzz / GDC'12 4. NREL 5. ADEME 6. NEDO 7. Euroserv/ER 8. APVA 9. APERE 10. Helapco

Top 10 Solar PV Markets, sorted by Cumulative capacity (kw)
	Country	2009	2010	2011	Cumulative
1.	Germany	3,806,700	7,390,922	7,500,243	24,794,243
2.	Italy	723,000	2,321,010	9,304,600	12,802,910
3.	Japan	482,976	990,979	1,295,804	4,913,948
4.	Spain	17,010	371,200	354,900	4,214,200
5.	USA	464,500	918,000	1,867,000	3,966,000
6.	China	160,000	500,000	2,500,000	3,301,000
7.	France	250,000	719,000	1,634,100	2,831,400
8.	Czech Republic	411,000	1,151,000	110,000	1,726,000
9.	Belgium	493,700	376,500	614,100	1,587,000
10.	Australia	83,140	383,300	837,000	1,407,940

1. BNA 2. ENEA/RSE 3. NEDO 4. Euroserv/ER 5. NREL 6. Solarbuzz / GDC'12 7. ADEME 8. EPIA 9. APERE 10. APVA

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