Electricity access
This entry provides information on access to electricity. Electrification data – collected from industry reports, national surveys, and international sources – consists of four subfields. Population without electricity provides an estimate of the number of citizens that do not have access to electricity. Electrification – total population is the percent of a country’s total population with access to electricity, electrification – urban areas is the percent of a country’s urban population with access to electricity, while electrification – rural areas is the percent of a country’s rural population with access to electricity. Due to differences in definitions and methodology from different sources, data quality may vary from country to country.
Afghanistan
electrification - total population: 97.7% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 99.5% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 97% (2021)
Albania
electrification - total population: 100% (2020)Algeria
electrification - total population: 99.8% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 99.6% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 99.2% (2021)
American Samoa
electrification - total population: 59% (2020)electrification - urban areas: 60% (2020)
electrification - rural areas: 45% (2020)
Andorra
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Angola
population without electricity: 18 million (2020)electrification - total population: 48.2% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 74.9% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 7.3% (2018)
Anguilla
electrification - total population: 100% (2020)Antigua and Barbuda
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Argentina
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Armenia
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Aruba
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Australia
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Austria
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Azerbaijan
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Bahamas, The
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Bahrain
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Bangladesh
population without electricity: 11 million (2020)electrification - total population: 98.9% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 99.7% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 98.5% (2021)
Barbados
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Belarus
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Belgium
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Belize
electrification - total population: 97.7% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 98.4% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 97% (2021)
Benin
population without electricity: 8 million (2020)electrification - total population: 41.9% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 66.9% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 17.9% (2021)
Bermuda
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Bhutan
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Bolivia
population without electricity: 2 million (2020)electrification - total population: 98.5% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 100% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 95.1% (2021)
Bosnia and Herzegovina
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Botswana
electrification - total population: 73.7% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 93% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 24.9% (2021)
Brazil
electrification - total population: 99.4% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 99.7% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 97.3% (2021)
British Virgin Islands
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Brunei
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Bulgaria
electrification - total population: 99.8% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 99.9% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 99.5% (2021)
Burkina Faso
population without electricity: 16 million (2020)electrification - total population: 18.9% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 67.6% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 4.7% (2014)
Burma
population without electricity: 26 million (2020)electrification - total population: 72.4% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 93.6% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 62.7% (2021)
Burundi
population without electricity: 11 million (2020)electrification - total population: 10.2% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 62.8% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 1.6% (2021)
Cabo Verde
electrification - total population: 95.2% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 94.8% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 96.8% (2021)
Cambodia
population without electricity: 4 million (2020)electrification - total population: 82.5% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 98.9% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 77.1% (2021)
Cameroon
population without electricity: 10 million (2020)electrification - total population: 65.4% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 94.6% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 24.8% (2021)
Canada
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Cayman Islands
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Central African Republic
population without electricity: 5 million (2020)electrification - total population: 15.6% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 34.6% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 1.5% (2021)
Chad
population without electricity: 15 million (2020)electrification - total population: 11.2% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 43.2% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 1.3% (2021)
Chile
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)China
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Colombia
population without electricity: 2 million (2020)electrification - total population: 99.9% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 100% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 99.9% (2021)
Comoros
population without electricity: (2020) less than 1 millionelectrification - total population: 87.9% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 100% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 82.8% (2021)
Congo, Democratic Republic of the
population without electricity: 82 million (2020)electrification - total population: 20.7% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 43.7% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 1% (2021)
Congo, Republic of the
population without electricity: 3 million (2020)electrification - total population: 49.6% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 66.9% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 12.3% (2021)
Costa Rica
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Cote d'Ivoire
population without electricity: 6 million (2020)electrification - total population: 71.1% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 94.9% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 45.1% (2021)
Croatia
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Cuba
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Curacao
electrification - total population: 100% (2020)Cyprus
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Czechia
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Denmark
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Djibouti
population without electricity: (2020) less than 1 millionelectrification - total population: 65.4% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 73.4% (2019)
electrification - rural areas: 36.5% (2021)
Dominica
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Dominican Republic
population without electricity: (2020) less than 1 millionelectrification - total population: 98.1% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 98.7% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 94.8% (2021)
Ecuador
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Egypt
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)El Salvador
population without electricity: (2020) less than 1 millionelectrification - total population: 97.8% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 99.2% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 94% (2021)
Equatorial Guinea
electrification - total population: 66.7% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 90.3% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 47% (2020)
Eritrea
population without electricity: 3 million (2020)electrification - total population: 52.5% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 75.6% (2019)
electrification - rural areas: 35.7% (2021)
Estonia
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Eswatini
population without electricity: (2020) less than 1 millionelectrification - total population: 82.9% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 94.5% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 79.1% (2021)
Ethiopia
population without electricity: 59 million (2020)electrification - total population: 54.1% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 94.3% (2019)
electrification - rural areas: 42.7% (2021)
European Union
electrification - total population: 99.9% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 99.9% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 99.9% (2021)
Faroe Islands
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Fiji
electrification - total population: 92.1% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 96% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 86.7% (2021)
Finland
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)France
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)French Polynesia
electrification - total population: 100% (2020)Gabon
population without electricity: (2020) less than 1 millionelectrification - total population: 91.8% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 98.6% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 26.7% (2021)
Gambia, The
population without electricity: (2020) less than 1 millionelectrification - total population: 63.6% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 82.5% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 31.2% (2021)
Gaza Strip
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)note: data for Gaza Strip and West Bank combined
Georgia
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Germany
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Ghana
population without electricity: 5 million (2020)electrification - total population: 86.3% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 95.2% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 74% (2021)
Gibraltar
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Greece
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Greenland
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Grenada
electrification - total population: 93.7% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 93% (2020)
electrification - rural areas: 96% (2020)
Guam
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Guatemala
population without electricity: 1 million (2020)electrification - total population: 97.8% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 97.6% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 98.1% (2021)
Guernsey
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Guinea
population without electricity: 7 million (2020)electrification - total population: 46.8% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 89.8% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 21.2% (2021)
Guinea-Bissau
population without electricity: 1 million (2020)electrification - total population: 35.7% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 60.5% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 15.8% (2021)
Guyana
electrification - total population: 92.8% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 97.5% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 91.1% (2021.)
Haiti
population without electricity: 7 million (2020)electrification - total population: 47.1% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 81.8% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 3% (2020)
Holy See (Vatican City)
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Honduras
population without electricity: 1 million (2020)electrification - total population: 94.1% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 100% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 85.6% (2021)
Hong Kong
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Hungary
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Iceland
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)India
population without electricity: 3 million (2020)electrification - total population: 99.5% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 100% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 99.3% (2021)
Indonesia
population without electricity: (2020) less than 1 millionelectrification - total population: 99.2% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 99.9% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 98.2% (2021)
Iran
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Iraq
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Ireland
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Isle of Man
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Israel
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Italy
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Jamaica
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Japan
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Jersey
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Jordan
population without electricity: (2020) less than 1 millionelectrification - total population: 99.9% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 100% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 98.8% (2021)
Kazakhstan
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Kenya
population without electricity: 12 million (2020)electrification - total population: 76.5% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 97.5% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 68.1% (2021)
Korea, North
population without electricity: 19 million (2020)electrification - total population: 52.6% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 36% (2020)
electrification - rural areas: 11% (2020)
Korea, South
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Kosovo
electrification - total population: 100% (2020)Kuwait
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Kyrgyzstan
electrification - total population: 99.6% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 99.8% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 99.5% (2021)
Laos
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Latvia
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Lebanon
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Lesotho
population without electricity: 1 million (2020)electrification - total population: 50.3% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 80.6% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 37.7% (2021)
Liberia
population without electricity: 4 million (2020)electrification - total population: 29.8% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 49.5% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 8% (2021)
Liechtenstein
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Lithuania
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Luxembourg
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Macau
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Madagascar
population without electricity: 20 million (2020)electrification - total population: 35.1% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 72.6% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 10.9% (2021)
Malawi
population without electricity: 17 million (2020)electrification - total population: 14.1% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 54.2% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 5.5% (2021)
Malaysia
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Maldives
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Mali
population without electricity: 10 million (2020)electrification - total population: 53.3% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 96.8% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 18.2% (2021)
Malta
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Marshall Islands
electrification - total population: 99.7% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 96% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 92% (2020)
Mauritania
population without electricity: 3 million (2020)electrification - total population: 47.6% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 89.6% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 1% (2020)
Mauritius
electrification - total population: 99.6% (2020)electrification - urban areas: 99.2% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 99.8% (2021)
Mexico
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Micronesia, Federated States of
electrification - total population: 83.6% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 97.5% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 79.4% (2021)
Moldova
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Monaco
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Mongolia
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Montenegro
electrification - total population: 99.7% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 100% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 99.3% (2021)
Montserrat
electrification - total population: 100% (2020)Morocco
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Mozambique
population without electricity: 19 million (2020)electrification - total population: 31.4% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 77.3% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 3.8% (2021)
Namibia
population without electricity: 1 million (2020)electrification - total population: 55.2% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 74.7% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 33.2% (2021)
Nauru
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Nepal
population without electricity: 1 million (2020)electrification - total population: 89.9% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 94.2% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 97% (2020)
Netherlands
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)New Caledonia
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)New Zealand
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Nicaragua
population without electricity: (2020) less than 1 millionelectrification - total population: 86.2% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 100% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 66.3% (2021)
Niger
population without electricity: 21 million (2020)electrification - total population: 18.6% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 65.9% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 9% (2021)
Nigeria
population without electricity: 66 million (2020)electrification - total population: 59.6% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 89.2% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 26.3% (2021)
North Macedonia
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Northern Mariana Islands
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Norway
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Oman
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Pakistan
population without electricity: 46 million (2020)electrification - total population: 94.9% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 99.9% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 91.9% (2021)
Palau
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Panama
population without electricity: (2020) less than 1 millionelectrification - total population: 95.2% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 99.7% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 85.6% (2020)
Papua New Guinea
electrification - total population: 20.9% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 65.1% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 14% (2021)
Paraguay
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Peru
population without electricity: (2020) less than 1 millionelectrification - total population: 95.6% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 98.9% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 83.5% (2021)
Philippines
population without electricity: 3 million (2020)electrification - total population: 97.4% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 98.6% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 96.4% (2021)
Poland
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Portugal
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Puerto Rico
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Qatar
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Romania
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Russia
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Rwanda
population without electricity: 5.8 million (2020)electrification - total population: 48.7% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 97.9% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 38.1% (2021)
Saint Barthelemy
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Saint Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Saint Kitts and Nevis
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Saint Lucia
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Saint Martin
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Samoa
electrification - total population: 98.3% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 100% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 97.9% (2021)
San Marino
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Sao Tome and Principe
population without electricity: (2020) less than 1 millionelectrification - total population: 78.4% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 80% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 73.7% (2021)
Saudi Arabia
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Senegal
population without electricity: 5 million (2020)electrification - total population: 67.9% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 93.9% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 43.4% (2021)
Serbia
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Seychelles
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Sierra Leone
population without electricity: 6 million (2020)electrification - total population: 27.4% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 56.9% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 4.9% (2021)
Singapore
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Sint Maarten
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Slovakia
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Slovenia
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Solomon Islands
electrification - total population: 76.3% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 79.2% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 75.3% (2021)
Somalia
population without electricity: 10 million (2020)electrification - total population: 49.3% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 70.6% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 30.6% (2021)
South Africa
population without electricity: 3 million (2020)electrification - total population: 89.3% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 87.3% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 93.3% (2019)
South Sudan
population without electricity: 10 million (2020)electrification - total population: 7.7% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 15.5% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 5.7% (2021)
Spain
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Sri Lanka
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Sudan
population without electricity: 23 million (2020)electrification - total population: 61.7% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 84.2% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 49.3% (2021)
Suriname
electrification - total population: 98.8% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 99.5% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 97.4% (2021)
Sweden
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Switzerland
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Syria
population without electricity: (2020) 2 millionelectrification - total population: 88.8% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 100% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 74.5% (2021)
Tajikistan
electrification - total population: 99.5% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 98.9% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 99.8% (2021)
Tanzania
population without electricity: (2020) 37 millionelectrification - total population: 42.7% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 77.3% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 23.3% (2021)
Thailand
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Timor-Leste
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Togo
population without electricity: (2020) 5 millionelectrification - total population: 55.7% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 96.3% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 24.6% (2021)
Tonga
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Trinidad and Tobago
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Tunisia
population without electricity: (2020) less than 1 millionelectrification - total population: 99.9% (2020)
electrification - urban areas: 100% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 99.6% (2021)
Turkey (Turkiye)
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Turkmenistan
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Turks and Caicos Islands
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Tuvalu
electrification - total population: 99.6% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 100% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 99% (2021)
Uganda
population without electricity: (2020) 34 millionelectrification - total population: 45.2% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 72.2% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 35.9% (2021)
United Arab Emirates
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)United Kingdom
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)United States
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Uruguay
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Uzbekistan
electrification - total population: 99.9% (2020)electrification - urban areas: 100% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 99.7% (2021)
Vanuatu
electrification - total population: 70% (2021)electrification - urban areas: 97% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 60.7% (2021)
Venezuela
population without electricity: (2020) less than 1 millionelectrification - total population: 99.9% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 100% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 99.8% (2021)
Vietnam
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Virgin Islands
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)Wake Island
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)West Bank
electrification - total population: 100% (2021)note: data for West Bank and Gaza Strip combined
World
population without electricity: (2020) 757 millionelectrification - total population: 91.4% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 97.6% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 84.4% (2021)
note: sub-Saharan Africa remains the region with the largest number of people without access to electricity with 77% of the World's total
Yemen
population without electricity: 16 million (2020) 17 millionelectrification - total population: 74.8% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 93.1% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 63.4% (2021)
Zambia
population without electricity: (2020) 12 millionelectrification - total population: 46.6% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 85.7% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 14.5% (2021)
Zimbabwe
population without electricity: (2020) 7 millionelectrification - total population: 48.9% (2021)
electrification - urban areas: 85.3% (2021)
electrification - rural areas: 31.6% (2021)