Lower middle income - Access to electricity, urban (% of urban population)

Access to electricity, urban (% of urban population) in Lower middle income was 96.82 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 27 years was 97.65 in 2019, while its lowest value was 84.43 in 1993.

Definition: Access to electricity, urban is the percentage of urban population with access to electricity.

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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Year Value
1993 84.43
1994 86.16
1995 86.33
1996 86.82
1997 88.20
1998 88.46
1999 89.96
2000 89.45
2001 88.65
2002 89.67
2003 90.20
2004 90.20
2005 90.71
2006 91.39
2007 91.90
2008 92.14
2009 93.30
2010 92.60
2011 93.12
2012 93.99
2013 94.08
2014 94.15
2015 94.63
2016 95.64
2017 96.95
2018 97.02
2019 97.65
2020 96.82

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

Classification

Topic: Environment Indicators

Sub-Topic: Energy production & use