Access to Electricity by Country
Key Findings
About This Dataset
Access to Electricity by CountryIndia is the standout: 60.3 percent of its population had electricity in 2000 and 99.5 percent did by 2023, an increase of 39.2 points covering hundreds of millions of people. Bangladesh went further still, from 32.0 to 99.5 percent, the largest gain in the group at 67.5 points. Uganda and Tanzania both started under 10 percent and have passed 48 percent. Of the countries that began below half, DR Congo has added the least - 15.4 points, reaching only 22.1 percent after 23 years - and Nigeria the next least, moving from 43.2 to 61.2 percent for a gain of 18.0 points over the same period in which India added 39.2. The world average rose from 78.2 to 91.6 percent.
Data Insights
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- World Bank Open Data
- Coverage
- 12 entities · 2000–2023 (6 years) · 72 observations
- Measure
- Access to Electricity (% of population)
- Last updated
- 22 August 2026
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values are shown as reported by the source. Nothing is rescaled, rebased or converted — the only changes are thousand separators and decimals shown to two places.
- Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
- Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
- The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2023.
- An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.
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