Dataset · World Bank Group
Access to Electricity, Rural
35 years, 1990–2024 · 209 countries
Rural access to electricity is the share of people in the countryside who have power at home — the part of SDG indicator 7.1.1 where the remaining gap is concentrated. The national figure averages town and country together; this one shows the half that is usually behind.
This site holds every year from 1990 to 2024, read from World Bank Group’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Access to Electricity, Rural · the file
- Newest
- Access to Electricity, Rural, 2024
- Held
- 35 years · 6,362 rows
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
0135 years
Every year
Every year comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. Each opens the full table for that year; each downloads as a CSV.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Access to Electricity, Rural, 2024Newest | 209 | +1 −1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Access to Electricity, Rural, 2023 | 209 | +1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Access to Electricity, Rural, 2022 | 208 | +3 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Access to Electricity, Rural, 2021 | 205 | +1 −2 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Access to Electricity, Rural, 2020 | 206 | +5 −2 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Access to Electricity, Rural, 2019 | 203 | +4 −4 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Access to Electricity, Rural, 2018 | 203 | +5 −4 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Access to Electricity, Rural, 2017 | 202 | +1 −3 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Access to Electricity, Rural, 2016 | 204 | −5 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Access to Electricity, Rural, 2015 | 209 | +4 −1 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Access to Electricity, Rural, 2014 | 206 | +2 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
| Access to Electricity, Rural, 2013 | 204 | +2 −3 | September 29, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 35 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: rural-electricity-access-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 columns
What’s in the file
Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 209 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 209 | 0 | |
Rural population with electricity access (%)rural_electricity_accessHeadline | The headline figure: Rural population with electricity access (%). | Number · up to 1 decimal | 0.7 South Sudan100.0121 share itmiddle 100.0 | 81 | 0 |
Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.
03214 countries across every year
Who is covered
How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 48 | 50 | 51 | 49 | 46 | 49 | 47 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 51 | 51 |
| Americas | 44 | 44 | 44 | 43 | 44 | 43 | 43 | 44 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 45 |
| Asia | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 49 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 48 | 49 | 49 | 49 |
| Europe | 46 | 46 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 | 47 |
| Oceania | 17 | 17 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 |
| All | 204 | 206 | 209 | 204 | 202 | 203 | 203 | 206 | 205 | 208 | 209 | 209 |
The newest 12 of 35 years.
Who joined and who left
- 2024
+ Angola
− Chad - 2023
+ Haiti - 2022
+ Burkina Faso
+ Nepal
+ Panama - 2021
+ Namibia
− Kiribati− Panama - 2020
+ Dominica
+ Gambia+ Panama
+ Somalia+ Chad− Haiti− Namibia - 2019+ Kiribati
+ Lesotho
+ Nauru
+ Yemen− Angola− Nepal− Somalia− Chad - 2018+ Angola
+ Djibouti
+ Gabon
+ Madagascar
+ Mali− Gambia− Lesotho− Panama− Yemen - 2017+ Haiti− Djibouti− Gabon− Mali
Not in this dataset · 11 places this site covers
World Bank Group gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
World Bank Group
2 · Their file
Access to Electricity, Rural 2024
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
35 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as rural-electricity-access-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
Precision
The headline is stored to 1 decimal, as published.
Rounded by this site
Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.
Changed by this site
Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.
Pulled from the World Bank's indicator API (EG.ELC.ACCS.RU.ZS), produced by ESMAP. Published to one decimal from 2000, as the producer releases it.
05Reuse
Licence and credit
What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- Share and redistribute it
- Adapt it and build on it
- Use it commercially
- Credit the publisher
- Say what you changed
Share, adapt and use commercially. Credit the publisher and say if you changed anything.
A credit line
Source: World Bank Group, Access to Electricity, Rural, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
World Bank Group. Access to Electricity, Rural, 1990–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/rural-electricity-access
The publisher’s own citation: World Bank. Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report. Washington, DC: World Bank Group (ESMAP).
Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Access to Electricity, Rural by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
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07Questions
Access to Electricity, Rural: questions and answers
What is the Access to Electricity, Rural?
Rural access to electricity is the share of people in the countryside who have power at home — the part of SDG indicator 7.1.1 where the remaining gap is concentrated. The national figure averages town and country together; this one shows the half that is usually behind.
Which years of the Access to Electricity, Rural can I download?
All 35, from 1990 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.
Does World Bank Group rank countries on it?
No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.
Can I use it commercially?
Yes, under CC BY 4.0, with credit to World Bank Group. The licence text is linked on this page.