Firms experiencing electrical outages (% of firms) - Country Ranking

Definition: Percent of firms experiencing electrical outages during the previous fiscal year.

Source: World Bank, Enterprise Surveys (http://www.enterprisesurveys.org/).

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Dominica 100.00 2010
2 St. Lucia 99.80 2010
3 Papua New Guinea 97.70 2015
4 Tonga 97.00 2009
5 Benin 95.60 2016
6 Antigua and Barbuda 95.50 2010
7 Myanmar 94.90 2016
8 St. Kitts and Nevis 94.00 2010
9 Yemen 93.80 2013
9 Togo 93.80 2016
11 Sudan 93.70 2014
12 The Gambia 93.20 2018
13 Cameroon 92.50 2016
14 Botswana 92.40 2010
15 South Africa 92.00 2020
16 Burkina Faso 91.90 2009
17 Mauritania 90.70 2014
18 Congo 89.70 2009
19 Dem. Rep. Congo 89.30 2013
20 Ghana 89.10 2013
21 Central African Republic 89.00 2011
22 Solomon Islands 88.80 2015
23 Angola 87.70 2010
24 Zambia 87.10 2019
25 Madagascar 86.90 2013
26 Mali 86.60 2016
27 Samoa 86.40 2009
28 Suriname 86.00 2018
29 Tanzania 85.80 2013
30 Burundi 85.10 2014
31 Guinea 84.20 2016
32 Senegal 83.70 2014
33 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 83.30 2010
34 Paraguay 83.00 2017
35 Malawi 82.90 2014
36 Kenya 82.80 2018
37 Guyana 81.80 2010
37 Fiji 81.80 2009
39 Uganda 81.50 2013
40 Pakistan 81.10 2013
41 Jamaica 80.90 2010
42 Djibouti 80.20 2013
43 Ethiopia 80.00 2015
44 Côte d'Ivoire 78.80 2016
45 Lao PDR 78.50 2018
46 Belize 78.40 2010
47 Niger 78.00 2017
48 Nigeria 77.60 2014
49 Iraq 77.30 2011
49 Eswatini 77.30 2016
51 Zimbabwe 76.50 2016
52 Sri Lanka 76.40 2011
53 The Bahamas 75.00 2010
54 Vanuatu 74.10 2009
55 Cabo Verde 74.00 2009
56 Bangladesh 73.40 2013
57 Sierra Leone 71.80 2017
57 Lesotho 71.80 2016
59 Gabon 71.60 2009
60 Afghanistan 70.40 2014
61 Chad 70.20 2018
62 Honduras 69.80 2016
63 Trinidad and Tobago 65.70 2010
64 Argentina 65.10 2017
65 Venezuela 64.60 2010
66 Bosnia and Herzegovina 63.40 2019
67 Nepal 62.80 2013
68 Armenia 62.70 2020
69 Ecuador 62.40 2017
70 Grenada 59.50 2010
71 Albania 58.70 2019
72 Guinea-Bissau 57.10 2006
73 Uruguay 56.60 2017
74 Barbados 55.60 2010
75 India 55.40 2014
76 Guatemala 54.40 2017
77 Georgia 54.10 2019
77 Dominican Republic 54.10 2016
79 Colombia 53.90 2017
80 Mozambique 52.80 2018
81 Peru 52.20 2017
82 Romania 51.10 2019
83 Nicaragua 49.90 2016
84 Serbia 49.50 2019
85 Costa Rica 49.40 2010
86 El Salvador 47.60 2016
87 Brazil 45.80 2009
88 Mexico 45.10 2010
89 Liberia 44.30 2017
90 Bhutan 44.20 2015
91 Kyrgyz Republic 43.10 2019
92 Chile 42.60 2010
93 Greece 40.40 2018
94 Tunisia 40.20 2020
95 Timor-Leste 40.00 2015
96 Philippines 39.90 2015
97 Rwanda 39.00 2019
98 Mauritius 38.80 2009
99 Montenegro 38.70 2019
100 Sweden 38.10 2020
101 Hungary 37.60 2019
102 Moldova 36.80 2019
103 Uzbekistan 35.80 2019
104 Cambodia 35.30 2016
105 Bolivia 35.10 2017
106 Czech Republic 34.80 2019
107 China 33.70 2012
108 Malta 33.60 2019
109 Denmark 32.70 2020
110 Tajikistan 32.20 2019
111 Estonia 31.10 2019
112 Bulgaria 30.60 2019
113 Ukraine 30.10 2019
114 Latvia 29.20 2019
115 Turkey 28.50 2019
116 Egypt 28.20 2020
117 Finland 27.80 2020
118 Azerbaijan 27.60 2019
119 Namibia 26.90 2014
120 Vietnam 26.30 2015
121 Belgium 26.20 2020
122 Slovak Republic 25.60 2019
123 Belarus 24.80 2018
124 Slovenia 23.70 2019
125 North Macedonia 23.20 2019
126 Luxembourg 22.80 2020
127 Indonesia 22.50 2015
128 Portugal 22.20 2019
129 Panama 21.60 2010
130 Morocco 20.90 2019
131 Eritrea 20.50 2009
132 Malaysia 18.90 2015
133 Netherlands 18.40 2020
134 Israel 18.20 2013
135 Lithuania 18.00 2019
136 Kazakhstan 17.10 2019
137 Ireland 16.60 2020
138 Russia 15.10 2019
139 Cyprus 14.50 2019
140 Mongolia 13.30 2019
141 Jordan 13.10 2019
142 Croatia 10.70 2019
143 Poland 10.10 2019
144 Thailand 8.60 2016
145 Lebanon 4.40 2019
146 Italy 2.00 2019

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Development Relevance: Firms evaluating investment options, governments interested in improving business conditions, and economists seeking to explain economic performance have all grappled with defining and measuring the business environment. The firm-level data from Enterprise Surveys provide a useful tool for benchmarking economies across a large number of indicators measured at the firm level. Informality is associated with business operations without registration. The informal sector in an economy may be a source of unfair competition to formal firms and also deprive governments of potential tax revenue and diminish a government's capacity for regulatory oversight. Informality can be defined along different dimensions such as operating without registration, income tax evasion, labor tax evasion, or operating outside the legal framework of an economy. Firms may show different degrees of informality along these dimensions which may also overlap. A large informal sector has serious consequences for the formal private sector, and may pose unfair competition for formal firms. It is an approximation to the prevalence of informality in the private economy.

Limitations and Exceptions: The sampling methodology for Enterprise Surveys is stratified random sampling. In a simple random sample, all members of the population have the same probability of being selected and no weighting of the observations is necessary. In a stratified random sample, all population units are grouped within homogeneous groups and simple random samples are selected within each group. This method allows computing estimates for each of the strata with a specified level of precision while population estimates can also be estimated by properly weighting individual observations. The sampling weights take care of the varying probabilities of selection across different strata. Under certain conditions, estimates' precision under stratified random sampling will be higher than under simple random sampling (lower standard errors may result from the estimation procedure). The strata for Enterprise Surveys are firm size, business sector, and geographic region within a country. Firm size levels are 5-19 (small), 20-99 (medium), and 100+ employees (large-sized firms). Since in most economies, the majority of firms are small and medium-sized, Enterprise Surveys oversample large firms since larger firms tend to be engines of job creation. Sector breakdown is usually manufacturing, retail, and other services. For larger economies, specific manufacturing sub-sectors are selected as additional strata on the basis of employment, value-added, and total number of establishments figures. Geographic regions within a country are selected based on which cities/regions collectively contain the majority of economic activity. Ideally the survey sample frame is derived from the universe of eligible firms obtained from the country’s statistical office. Sometimes the master list of firms is obtained from other government agencies such as tax or business licensing authorities. In some cases, the list of firms is obtained from business associations or marketing databases. In a few cases, the sample frame is created via block enumeration, where the World Bank “manually” constructs a list of eligible firms after 1) partitioning a country’s cities of major economic activity into clusters and blocks, 2) randomly selecting a subset of blocks which will then be enumerated. In surveys conducted since 2005-06, survey documentation which explains the source of the sample frame and any special circumstances encountered during survey fieldwork are included with the collected datasets. Obtaining panel data, i.e. interviews with the same firms across multiple years, is a priority in current Enterprise Surveys. When conducting a new Enterprise Survey in a country where data was previously collected, maximal effort is expended to re-interview as many firms (from the prior survey) as possible. For these panel firms, sampling weights can be adjusted to take into account the resulting altered probabilities of inclusion in the sample frame.

Original Source Notes: All surveys were administered using the Enterprise Surveys methodology as outlined in the Methodology page which can be found from www.enterprisesurveys.org.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Firm-level surveys have been conducted since the 1990's by different units within the World Bank. Since 2005-06, most data collection efforts have been centralized within the Enterprise Analysis Unit. Surveys implemented by the Enterprise Analysis Unit follow the Global Methodology. Private contractors conduct the Enterprise Surveys on behalf of the World Bank. Due to sensitive survey questions addressing business-government relations and bribery-related topics, private contractors, rather than any government agency or an organization/institution associated with government, are hired by the World Bank to collect the data. Confidentiality of the survey respondents and the sensitive information they provide is necessary to ensure the greatest degree of survey participation, integrity and confidence in the quality of the data. Surveys are usually carried out in cooperation with business organizations and government agencies promoting job creation and economic growth, but confidentiality is never compromised. The Enterprise Survey is answered by business owners and top managers. Sometimes the survey respondent calls company accountants and human resource managers into the interview to answer questions in the sales and labor sections of the survey. Typically 1200-1800 interviews are conducted in larger economies, 360 interviews are conducted in medium-sized economies, and for smaller economies, 150 interviews take place. The manufacturing and services sectors are the primary business sectors of interest. This corresponds to firms classified with ISIC codes 15-37, 45, 50-52, 55, 60-64, and 72 (ISIC Rev.3.1). Formal (registered) companies with 5 or more employees are targeted for interview. Services firms include construction, retail, wholesale, hotels, restaurants, transport, storage, communications, and IT. Firms with 100% government/state ownership are not eligible to participate in an Enterprise Survey. Occasionally, for a few surveyed countries, other sectors are included in the companies surveyed such as education or health-related businesses. In each country, businesses in the cities/regions of major economic activity are interviewed. In some countries, other surveys, which depart from the usual Enterprise Survey methodology, are conducted. Examples include 1) Informal Surveys- surveys of informal (unregistered) enterprises, 2) Micro Surveys- surveys fielded to registered firms with less than five employees, and 3) Financial Crisis Assessment Surveys- short surveys administered by telephone to assess the effects of the global financial crisis of 2008-09. The Enterprise Surveys Unit uses two instruments: the Manufacturing Questionnaire and the Services Questionnaire. Although many questions overlap, some are only applicable to one type of business. For example, retail firms are not asked about production and nonproduction workers. The standard Enterprise Survey topics include firm characteristics, gender participation, access to finance, annual sales, costs of inputs/labor, workforce composition, bribery, licensing, infrastructure, trade, crime, competition, capacity utilization, land and permits, taxation, informality, business-government relations, innovation and technology, and performance measures. Over 90% of the questions objectively ascertain characteristics of a country’s business environment. The remaining questions assess the survey respondents’ opinions on what are the obstacles to firm growth and performance. The mode of data collection is face-to-face interviews.

Aggregation method: Unweighted average

Periodicity: Annual