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Living standards · EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS

Access to electricity

The percentage of the population with access to electricity.

Weighted average · not a median

First official point · 1998

73.2

% of population

Latest official point · 2024

91.9

% of population

Published World points

27

1998–2024

Gaps are years without a published World value. The line is not interpolated.

How this series is built

Population-weighted average. Not a median of countries.

Official SDG 7.1.1 electrification series from Tracking SDG7 / ESMAP (World Bank, IEA, IRENA, UNSD, WHO), accessed via World Bank WDI. Only years with a published World value are shown.

Source

Aggregate
Weighted average · not a median
Producer
ESMAP / World Bank, IEA, IRENA, UNSD, WHO
Series
Tracking SDG7 electrification dataset
Series code
EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS
License
CC BY 4.0
Fetched
2026-08-17