Access to electricity (% of population) - Country Ranking

Definition: Access to electricity is the percentage of population with access to electricity. Electrification data are collected from industry, national surveys and international sources.

Source: World Bank, Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) database from the SE4ALL Global Tracking Framework led jointly by the World Bank, International Energy Agency, and the Energy Sector Management Assistance Program.

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Rank Country Value Year
1 United Arab Emirates 100.00 2020
1 Argentina 100.00 2020
1 Armenia 100.00 2020
1 Azerbaijan 100.00 2020
1 Belgium 100.00 2020
1 Bosnia and Herzegovina 100.00 2020
1 Belarus 100.00 2020
1 Brazil 100.00 2020
1 Brunei 100.00 2020
1 Canada 100.00 2020
1 Switzerland 100.00 2020
1 China 100.00 2020
1 Colombia 100.00 2020
1 Cyprus 100.00 2020
1 Germany 100.00 2020
1 Denmark 100.00 2020
1 Egypt 100.00 2020
1 Estonia 100.00 2020
1 Finland 100.00 2020
1 United Kingdom 100.00 2020
1 Greece 100.00 2020
1 Greenland 100.00 2020
1 Hong Kong SAR, China 100.00 2020
1 Croatia 100.00 2020
1 Iraq 100.00 2020
1 Jamaica 100.00 2020
1 Korea 100.00 2020
1 Kuwait 100.00 2020
1 Sri Lanka 100.00 2020
1 Macao SAR, China 100.00 2020
1 Albania 100.00 2020
1 Andorra 100.00 2020
1 Antigua and Barbuda 100.00 2020
1 Australia 100.00 2020
1 Austria 100.00 2020
1 Malta 100.00 2020
1 Bahrain 100.00 2020
1 The Bahamas 100.00 2020
1 Barbados 100.00 2020
1 Bhutan 100.00 2020
1 Chile 100.00 2020
1 Cuba 100.00 2020
1 Cayman Islands 100.00 2020
1 Czech Republic 100.00 2020
1 Dominica 100.00 2020
1 Dominican Republic 100.00 2020
1 Spain 100.00 2020
1 Fiji 100.00 2020
1 France 100.00 2020
1 Georgia 100.00 2020
1 Hungary 100.00 2020
1 Ireland 100.00 2020
1 Iran 100.00 2020
1 Iceland 100.00 2020
1 Israel 100.00 2020
1 Italy 100.00 2020
1 St. Kitts and Nevis 100.00 2020
1 Lao PDR 100.00 2020
1 Lebanon 100.00 2020
1 Japan 100.00 2020
1 Kazakhstan 100.00 2020
1 St. Lucia 100.00 2020
1 Liechtenstein 100.00 2020
1 Lithuania 100.00 2020
1 Luxembourg 100.00 2020
1 Latvia 100.00 2020
1 Morocco 100.00 2020
1 Monaco 100.00 2020
1 Moldova 100.00 2020
1 North Macedonia 100.00 2020
1 Montenegro 100.00 2020
1 Malaysia 100.00 2020
1 New Caledonia 100.00 2020
1 New Zealand 100.00 2020
1 Paraguay 100.00 2020
1 Romania 100.00 2020
1 Saudi Arabia 100.00 2020
1 Poland 100.00 2020
1 Puerto Rico 100.00 2020
1 El Salvador 100.00 2020
1 San Marino 100.00 2020
1 Serbia 100.00 2020
1 Sweden 100.00 2020
1 Thailand 100.00 2020
1 Turkmenistan 100.00 2020
1 Tonga 100.00 2020
1 Turkey 100.00 2020
1 Uzbekistan 100.00 2020
1 Venezuela 100.00 2020
1 Samoa 100.00 2020
1 Netherlands 100.00 2020
1 Norway 100.00 2020
1 Palau 100.00 2020
1 Portugal 100.00 2020
1 Qatar 100.00 2020
1 Russia 100.00 2020
1 Nauru 100.00 2020
1 Oman 100.00 2020
1 Singapore 100.00 2020
1 Slovak Republic 100.00 2020
1 Slovenia 100.00 2020
1 Seychelles 100.00 2020
1 Trinidad and Tobago 100.00 2020
1 Tunisia 100.00 2020
1 Ukraine 100.00 2020
1 Uruguay 100.00 2020
1 United States 100.00 2020
1 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 100.00 2020
1 Vietnam 100.00 2020
110 Kyrgyz Republic 99.98 2020
111 Costa Rica 99.90 2020
111 Jordan 99.90 2020
113 Algeria 99.80 2020
114 Tajikistan 99.78 2020
115 Bulgaria 99.70 2020
116 Tuvalu 99.69 2020
117 Mauritius 99.66 2020
118 Mexico 99.40 2020
119 Peru 99.31 2020
120 India 99.00 2020
121 Ecuador 98.85 2020
122 Suriname 98.20 2020
123 Mongolia 98.10 2020
124 Afghanistan 97.70 2020
125 Bolivia 97.55 2020
126 Belize 97.11 2020
127 Guatemala 97.06 2020
128 Indonesia 96.95 2020
129 Philippines 96.84 2020
130 Panama 96.70 2020
131 Bangladesh 96.20 2020
132 Timor-Leste 96.12 2020
133 Cabo Verde 94.16 2020
134 Grenada 93.59 2020
135 Honduras 93.21 2020
136 Guyana 92.54 2020
137 Kiribati 91.96 2020
138 Gabon 91.57 2020
139 Nepal 89.90 2020
140 Syrian Arab Republic 89.14 2020
141 Nicaragua 88.91 2020
142 Comoros 86.74 2020
143 Cambodia 86.40 2020
144 Ghana 85.87 2020
145 South Africa 84.39 2020
146 Eswatini 79.73 2020
147 São Tomé and Principe 76.56 2020
148 Pakistan 75.38 2020
149 Yemen 73.76 2020
150 Solomon Islands 73.35 2020
151 Botswana 71.99 2020
152 Kenya 71.44 2020
153 Myanmar 70.40 2020
154 Senegal 70.37 2020
155 Libya 69.71 2020
156 Côte d'Ivoire 69.68 2020
157 Vanuatu 67.33 2020
158 Equatorial Guinea 66.75 2020
159 Cameroon 64.72 2020
160 The Gambia 62.27 2020
161 Djibouti 61.77 2020
162 Papua New Guinea 60.40 2020
163 Namibia 56.26 2020
164 Nigeria 55.40 2020
165 Sudan 55.39 2020
166 Togo 54.00 2020
167 Zimbabwe 52.75 2020
168 Dem. People's Rep. Korea 52.31 2020
169 Eritrea 52.17 2020
170 Ethiopia 51.09 2020
171 Mali 50.56 2020
172 Somalia 49.73 2020
173 Congo 49.52 2020
174 Lesotho 47.35 2020
175 Mauritania 47.35 2020
176 Haiti 46.93 2020
177 Angola 46.89 2020
178 Rwanda 46.60 2020
179 Guinea 44.67 2020
180 Zambia 44.52 2020
181 Uganda 42.07 2020
182 Benin 41.41 2020
183 Tanzania 39.90 2020
184 Madagascar 33.74 2020
185 Guinea-Bissau 33.34 2020
186 Mozambique 30.60 2020
187 Liberia 27.53 2020
188 Sierra Leone 26.20 2020
189 Niger 19.25 2020
190 Dem. Rep. Congo 19.10 2020
191 Burkina Faso 18.96 2020
192 Central African Republic 15.47 2020
193 Malawi 14.87 2020
194 Burundi 11.74 2020
195 Chad 11.08 2020

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Development Relevance: Maintaining reliable and secure electricity services while seeking to rapidly decarbonize power systems is a key challenge for countries throughout the world. More and more countries are becoming increasing dependent on reliable and secure electricity supplies to underpin economic growth and community prosperity. This reliance is set to grow as more efficient and less carbon intensive forms of power are developed and deployed to help decarbonize economies. Energy is necessary for creating the conditions for economic growth. It is impossible to operate a factory, run a shop, grow crops or deliver goods to consumers without using some form of energy. Access to electricity is particularly crucial to human development as electricity is, in practice, indispensable for certain basic activities, such as lighting, refrigeration and the running of household appliances, and cannot easily be replaced by other forms of energy. Individuals' access to electricity is one of the most clear and un-distorted indication of a country's energy poverty status. Electricity access is increasingly at the forefront of governments' preoccupations, especially in the developing countries. As a consequence, a lot of rural electrification programs and national electrification agencies have been created in these countries to monitor more accurately the needs and the status of rural development and electrification. Use of energy is important in improving people's standard of living. But electricity generation also can damage the environment. Whether such damage occurs depends largely on how electricity is generated. For example, burning coal releases twice as much carbon dioxide - a major contributor to global warming - as does burning an equivalent amount of natural gas.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Data for access to electricity are collected among different sources: mostly data from nationally representative household surveys (including national censuses) were used. Survey sources include Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Living Standards Measurement Surveys (LSMS), Multi-Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), the World Health Survey (WHS), other nationally developed and implemented surveys, and various government agencies (for example, ministries of energy and utilities). Given the low frequency and the regional distribution of some surveys, a number of countries have gaps in available data. To develop the historical evolution and starting point of electrification rates, a simple modeling approach was adopted to fill in the missing data points - around 1990, around 2000, and around 2010. Therefore, a country can have a continuum of zero to three data points. There are 42 countries with zero data point and the weighted regional average was used as an estimate for electrification in each of the data periods. 170 countries have between one and three data points and missing data are estimated by using a model with region, country, and time variables. The model keeps the original observation if data is available for any of the time periods. This modeling approach allowed the estimation of electrification rates for 212 countries over these three time periods (Indicated as "Estimate"). Notation "Assumption" refers to the assumption of universal access in countries classified as developed by the United Nations. Data begins from the year in which the first survey data is available for each country.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual