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Access to electricity
% of population
direct measurestatistical agency datahigher is better
What it measures
Basic infrastructure.From published value to score
- Published value. Native scale: 0 to 100 percent.
- Transform: value (no transform).
- Goalposts (fixed for all years; 2.5th and 97.5th percentiles of all observed country-years): worst = 9.30 scores 0, best = 100 scores 100.
- Direction: higher is better, no flip.
- Clip and scale: anything below the worst goalpost scores 0 and anything above the best scores 100; multiply by 100.
Goalposts come from 5,350 observed country-years since 2000. Coverage: 215 countries · 5,350 observed country-years · 0 carried forward (max 3 years) · last year with ≥100 countries observed: 2024. Open any country row below to see this calculation applied to its value.
Where the numbers come from
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World Bank API v2, series EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS (World Development Indicators) · series page · metadata · source updated 2026-07-13 · fetched 2026-10-04Built from one source
- World Bank / ESMAP Tracking SDG 7 electrification dataset produces the series — Household surveys and censuses, with a model filling years between surveys.
Source statement as published by the data provider (verbatim)
SDG 7.1.1 Electrification Dataset, World Bank (WB), uri: https://trackingsdg7.esmap.org/downloads, note: Data is downloaded from ESMAP website. Data is released when a new Tracking SDG7 report is released., publisher: World Bank (WB), date accessed: 2024-05-16, date published: 2023
Access to electricity is the percentage of population with access to electricity. Electrification data are collected from industry, national surveys and international sources.
Every country row below has a “verify” link to this series filtered to that country, so each value can be checked against the source.
History
Dots mark years with a published observation; flat stretches are carried forward.
Countries ranked on this indicator
215 countries have a usable value for 2024 (0 carried forward from an earlier year); 2 have none within 3 years.
No official value for 2024: 2 countries
American Samoa, Kosovo