Data

Share of people with access to electricity

The part of each country's and the world's population that has access to electricity, each year since 1990, from the World Bank's World Development Indicators.

Latest value

91.9%

Economies, and the world, 2024. Version 2026-07-13.

Share of people with access to electricity (percent of population)

27 values from 1998 to 2024.

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Share of people with access to electricity, every value
Period	Value (%)	Status
1998	73.2	final
1999	74.5	final
2000	78.2	final
2001	78.7	final
2002	79.1	final
2003	80.0	final
2004	80.0	final
2005	80.7	final
2006	81.4	final
2007	82.0	final
2008	82.7	final
2009	82.9	final
2010	83.5	final
2011	84.5	final
2012	84.9	final
2013	85.7	final
2014	86.2	final
2015	86.9	final
2016	88.1	final
2017	88.9	final
2018	89.8	final
2019	90.1	final
2020	90.4	final
2021	91.3	final
2022	91.3	final
2023	91.6	final
2024	91.9	final

The World Bank: World Development Indicators (last updated 2026-07-13): population from UN World Population Prospects and national statistical offices; GDP per capita (PPP) from the International Comparison Program; access to electricity from the SDG 7.1.1 Electrification Dataset. CC BY 4.0. CC BY 4.0 (World Bank dataset terms, with their additional terms).

Where it comes from

Producer: World Bank · World Development Indicators
Version: 2026-07-13
File: https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country/all/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS?format=json&per_page=20000&source=2
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Producer: World Bank · World Development Indicators
Version: 2026-07-13
File: https://api.worldbank.org/v2/country?format=json&per_page=400
Fetched: 2026-10-05 (automatically), 113,590 bytes
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Cite the producer: The World Bank. World Development Indicators (last updated 2026-07-13). Accessed 2026-10-05.

What was done to it

Read the World Bank Indicators API response for EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS ('Access to electricity (% of population)'), WDI source 2, last updated 2026-07-13, one page holding every row (sha256 56938ff3d820…).
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/energy/wdi_access.py · code sha256 2bf9f6cb7dde3b12… · inputs 56938ff3d820… d29d57f8adf9…
Kept the World and the 216 economies with a value, matched by ISO 3 code to pipeline/geo/entities.csv (the API's XKX is Kosovo, KOS; CHI is the Channel Islands, reported as one economy), from the API's country list; World Bank regions, income and lending groups were left out.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/energy/wdi_access.py · code sha256 2bf9f6cb7dde3b12… · inputs 56938ff3d820… d29d57f8adf9…
Published every non-empty value as given, 1990–2024; years without a value have no observation.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/energy/wdi_access.py · code sha256 2bf9f6cb7dde3b12… · inputs 56938ff3d820… d29d57f8adf9…

What it covers

Geography: Economies, and the world
Basis: World Bank indicator EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS, from the SDG 7.1.1 Electrification Dataset: the percentage of the population with access to electricity, from data collected from industry, national surveys and international sources (the indicator's metadata). The world value is the World Bank's population-weighted average and starts in 1998.
Unit: percent of population (%)