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Rural access to electricity by country

What share of people in the countryside have electricity at home?

Of the 209 countries compared in 2024, 121 countries shared the highest reading, 100.0%, and South Sudan had the lowest reading, 0.7%. In the middle country the figure was 100.0%.

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Rural access to electricity · 2024

Context statistic

121 countries share the highest value, 100.0% — no single country is named first.

012024 · values only

Who leads

The three countries at the highest end of 209 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.

Highest in 2024 · shared

121 countries share the highest reading, 100.0%

No single country is named first: picking one from a shared value would be a choice the data does not make.

Lowest in 2024

  1. South Sudan0.7%
  2. DR Congo1.0%
  3. Angola1.3%

Where a country sits says how it compares with the others measured, and nothing about why.

Highest on each continent

02Every measured country

Rural access to electricity on a map

Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.

All regions

Darker is a higher value — the better end.

  • 0.7–67.1%
  • 72.2–99.6%
  • 99.7–100.0%
  • No reading in 2024 (5 measured in an earlier edition)
  • Americas

    100.0%

    the middle country, of 45 measured · 48 members

    23 share 100.0%

    Haiti15.0%

    Highest and lowest reading in Americas.

  • Asia

    100.0%

    the middle country, of 49 measured · 52 members

    34 share 100.0%

    Syria61.6%

    Highest and lowest reading in Asia.

  • Europe

    100.0%

    the middle country, of 47 measured · 49 members

    47 share 100.0%

    47 share 100.0%

    Highest and lowest reading in Europe.

  • Oceania

    100.0%

    the middle country, of 17 measured · 21 members

    11 share 100.0%

    Papua New Guinea39.0%

    Highest and lowest reading in Oceania.

  • Africa

    42.7%

    the middle country, of 51 measured · 55 members

    6 share 100.0%

    South Sudan0.7%

    Highest and lowest reading in Africa.

22 sub-regions, highest middle country first
  • Caribbean

    100.0%

    the middle country, of 21 measured · 24 members

    18 share 100.0%

    Haiti15.0%

    Highest and lowest reading in Caribbean.

  • Central Asia

    100.0%

    the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members

    4 share 100.0%

    Tajikistan99.9%

    Highest and lowest reading in Central Asia.

  • Eastern Asia

    100.0%

    the middle country, of 6 measured · 8 members

    5 share 100.0%

    Mongolia98.4%

    Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Asia.

  • Eastern Europe

    100.0%

    the middle country, of 10 measured · 10 members

    10 share 100.0%

    10 share 100.0%

    Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Europe.

  • Micronesia

    100.0%

    the middle country, of 6 measured · 7 members

    4 share 100.0%

    Micronesia86.0%

    Highest and lowest reading in Micronesia.

  • Northern Africa

    100.0%

    the middle country, of 5 measured · 6 members

    4 share 100.0%

    Sudan54.2%

    Highest and lowest reading in Northern Africa.

  • Northern Europe

    100.0%

    the middle country, of 13 measured · 13 members

    13 share 100.0%

    13 share 100.0%

    Highest and lowest reading in Northern Europe.

  • Southern Europe

    100.0%

    the middle country, of 15 measured · 17 members

    15 share 100.0%

    15 share 100.0%

    Highest and lowest reading in Southern Europe.

  • Western Asia

    100.0%

    the middle country, of 18 measured · 19 members

    16 share 100.0%

    Syria61.6%

    Highest and lowest reading in Western Asia.

  • Western Europe

    100.0%

    the middle country, of 9 measured · 9 members

    9 share 100.0%

    9 share 100.0%

    Highest and lowest reading in Western Europe.

  • Southern Asia

    99.9%

    the middle country, of 9 measured · 9 members

    4 share 100.0%

    Afghanistan84.6%

    Highest and lowest reading in Southern Asia.

  • South-eastern Asia

    99.7%

    the middle country, of 11 measured · 11 members

    5 share 100.0%

    Myanmar73.9%

    Highest and lowest reading in South-eastern Asia.

  • South America

    95.6%

    the middle country, of 12 measured · 12 members

    Venezuela100.0%

    Argentina79.8%

    Highest and lowest reading in South America.

  • Central America

    94.4%

    the middle country, of 8 measured · 8 members

    Belize99.5%

    Nicaragua72.2%

    Highest and lowest reading in Central America.

  • Melanesia

    81.1%

    the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members

    New Caledonia100.0%

    Papua New Guinea39.0%

    Highest and lowest reading in Melanesia.

  • Southern Africa

    45.9%

    the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members

    Eswatini88.3%

    Namibia41.1%

    Highest and lowest reading in Southern Africa.

  • Eastern Africa

    44.0%

    the middle country, of 18 measured · 19 members

    2 share 100.0%

    South Sudan0.7%

    Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Africa.

  • Western Africa

    31.4%

    the middle country, of 15 measured · 16 members

    Cabo Verde97.7%

    Liberia9.2%

    Highest and lowest reading in Western Africa.

  • Middle Africa

    12.3%

    the middle country, of 8 measured · 9 members

    São Tomé and Príncipe75.1%

    DR Congo1.0%

    Highest and lowest reading in Middle Africa.

  • Australia and New Zealand

    2 of 2 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, New Zealand.

    2 share 100.0%

    2 share 100.0%

    Highest and lowest reading in Australia and New Zealand.

  • Northern America

    4 of 4 measured — too few for a middle: Bermuda, Canada, Greenland, United States.

    4 share 100.0%

    4 share 100.0%

    Highest and lowest reading in Northern America.

  • Polynesia

    4 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: French Polynesia, Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu.

    4 share 100.0%

    4 share 100.0%

    Highest and lowest reading in Polynesia.

03The whole field at once

The spread

209 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 100.0%; a quarter are above 100.0%, and a quarter below 84.6%. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.

20%40%60%80%100%Africa51 comparedMauritius: 100.0%Egypt: 100.0%Morocco: 100.0%Seychelles: 100.0%Tunisia: 100.0%Algeria: 100.0%Cabo Verde: 97.7%Eswatini: 88.3%Comoros: 88.2%South Africa: 86.3%Ghana: 82.6%São Tomé and Príncipe: 75.1%Senegal: 67.1%Kenya: 67.1%Rwanda: 65.2%Sudan: 54.2%Djibouti: 53.9%Gabon: 51.3%Côte d’Ivoire: 47.7%Zimbabwe: 46.6%Botswana: 45.9%Benin: 45.0%Uganda: 44.8%Ethiopia: 44.8%Eritrea: 43.2%Cameroon: 42.7%Lesotho: 41.4%Namibia: 41.1%Gambia: 39.2%Togo: 33.9%Tanzania: 33.7%Mali: 31.4%Zambia: 31.3%Guinea: 29.4%Madagascar: 26.5%Guinea-Bissau: 24.9%Sierra Leone: 24.9%Somalia: 24.4%Nigeria: 23.5%Republic of the Congo: 19.4%Burkina Faso: 12.7%Mozambique: 12.3%Niger: 10.8%Liberia: 9.2%Malawi: 6.4%Equatorial Guinea: 5.1%Burundi: 3.6%Central African Republic: 2.0%Angola: 1.3%DR Congo: 1.0%South Sudan: 0.7%South Sudan 0.7%Algeria 100.0%Americas45 comparedAntigua and Barbuda: 100.0%Aruba: 100.0%Bahamas: 100.0%Barbados: 100.0%Bermuda: 100.0%British Virgin Islands: 100.0%Canada: 100.0%Curaçao: 100.0%Greenland: 100.0%Puerto Rico: 100.0%Saint Kitts and Nevis: 100.0%Turks and Caicos Islands: 100.0%United States: 100.0%United States Virgin Islands: 100.0%Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 100.0%Venezuela: 100.0%Cayman Islands: 100.0%Cuba: 100.0%Saint Lucia: 100.0%Trinidad and Tobago: 100.0%Saint Martin: 100.0%Sint Maarten: 100.0%Dominica: 100.0%Paraguay: 99.6%Belize: 99.5%Costa Rica: 99.4%Uruguay: 99.3%Brazil: 99.2%Mexico: 99.2%Dominican Republic: 98.7%Suriname: 97.1%El Salvador: 96.6%Ecuador: 95.9%Jamaica: 95.7%Colombia: 95.2%Panama: 92.1%Chile: 90.7%Guyana: 90.5%Honduras: 90.1%Bolivia: 88.7%Peru: 82.1%Guatemala: 80.4%Argentina: 79.8%Nicaragua: 72.2%Haiti: 15.0%Haiti 15.0%Dominica 100.0%Asia49 comparedBahrain: 100.0%Brunei: 100.0%Cyprus: 100.0%Hong Kong: 100.0%Israel: 100.0%Japan: 100.0%Jordan: 100.0%Kuwait: 100.0%Oman: 100.0%Qatar: 100.0%Saudi Arabia: 100.0%Singapore: 100.0%South Korea: 100.0%United Arab Emirates: 100.0%Macau: 100.0%Kazakhstan: 100.0%Uzbekistan: 100.0%Kyrgyzstan: 100.0%Palestine: 100.0%Vietnam: 100.0%Armenia: 100.0%Azerbaijan: 100.0%Bhutan: 100.0%China: 100.0%Georgia: 100.0%Iran: 100.0%Iraq: 100.0%Lebanon: 100.0%Malaysia: 100.0%Maldives: 100.0%Sri Lanka: 100.0%Thailand: 100.0%Türkiye: 100.0%Turkmenistan: 100.0%India: 99.9%Tajikistan: 99.9%Indonesia: 99.7%Bangladesh: 99.6%Cambodia: 98.6%Mongolia: 98.4%Laos: 94.2%Nepal: 94.2%Pakistan: 94.0%Timor-Leste: 92.1%Philippines: 88.5%Afghanistan: 84.6%Yemen: 81.3%Myanmar: 73.9%Syria: 61.6%Syria 61.6%Turkmenistan 100.0%Europe47 comparedAlbania: 100.0%Andorra: 100.0%Austria: 100.0%Belarus: 100.0%Belgium: 100.0%Bosnia and Herzegovina: 100.0%Bulgaria: 100.0%Channel Islands: 100.0%Croatia: 100.0%Czechia: 100.0%Denmark: 100.0%Estonia: 100.0%Faroe Islands: 100.0%Finland: 100.0%France: 100.0%Germany: 100.0%Greece: 100.0%Hungary: 100.0%Iceland: 100.0%Ireland: 100.0%Isle of Man: 100.0%Italy: 100.0%Latvia: 100.0%Liechtenstein: 100.0%Lithuania: 100.0%Luxembourg: 100.0%Malta: 100.0%Moldova: 100.0%Monaco: 100.0%Montenegro: 100.0%Netherlands: 100.0%North Macedonia: 100.0%Norway: 100.0%Poland: 100.0%Portugal: 100.0%Romania: 100.0%Russia: 100.0%San Marino: 100.0%Serbia: 100.0%Slovakia: 100.0%Slovenia: 100.0%Spain: 100.0%Sweden: 100.0%Switzerland: 100.0%Ukraine: 100.0%United Kingdom: 100.0%Gibraltar: 100.0%Albania 100.0% · Gibraltar 100.0%Oceania17 comparedAustralia: 100.0%French Polynesia: 100.0%Guam: 100.0%New Caledonia: 100.0%New Zealand: 100.0%Northern Mariana Islands: 100.0%Palau: 100.0%Samoa: 100.0%Tonga: 100.0%Tuvalu: 100.0%Nauru: 100.0%Marshall Islands: 96.3%Fiji: 92.5%Micronesia: 86.0%Solomon Islands: 81.1%Vanuatu: 58.5%Papua New Guinea: 39.0%Papua New Guinea 39.0%Nauru 100.0%middle country 100.0%

04All 214 ever measured

Every country

In order, highest value first. No rank or position is shown: too many countries share the same value for an order to mean anything. Most of the table is a tie at 100%: in a majority of countries every rural household is counted as connected, so no position is shown — the spread that matters is entirely at the bottom. One reading the Bank published is left out: a rural rate its own national and urban figures cannot reconcile.

The raw table

Showing 25 of 214 countries

  1. AlbaniaSouthern Europe100.0%
  2. AlgeriaNorthern Africa100.0%
  3. AndorraSouthern Europe100.0%
  4. Antigua and BarbudaCaribbean100.0%
  5. ArmeniaWestern Asia100.0%
  6. ArubaCaribbean100.0%
  7. AustraliaAustralia and New Zealand100.0%
  8. AustriaWestern Europe100.0%
  9. AzerbaijanWestern Asia100.0%
  10. BahamasCaribbean100.0%
  11. BahrainWestern Asia100.0%
  12. BarbadosCaribbean100.0%
  13. BelarusEastern Europe100.0%
  14. BelgiumWestern Europe100.0%
  15. BermudaNorthern America100.0%
  16. BhutanSouthern Asia100.0%
  17. Bosnia and HerzegovinaSouthern Europe100.0%
  18. British Virgin IslandsCaribbean100.0%
  19. BruneiSouth-eastern Asia100.0%
  20. BulgariaEastern Europe100.0%
  21. CanadaNorthern America100.0%
  22. Cayman IslandsCaribbean100.0%
  23. Channel IslandsNorthern Europe100.0%
  24. ChinaEastern Asia100.0%
  25. CroatiaSouthern Europe100.0%

Values for 2024. The change column compares 2024 with 2023 only; the sparkline covers the recent editions.

051990–2024 · 35 reference years

Over time

Each point is one reference year from 1990, all restated in the World Bank's current release. Coverage before 2000 is thinner, so the early part of the line describes fewer countries.

20%40%60%80%100%19901995200020052010201520202024AmericasAsiaEuropeOceaniaAfrica
  • the middle country
  • the middle half of countries
  • the middle of the 89 countries measured every time
  • each continent’s middle country
The same, year by year
YearCountriesMiddle countryMiddle halfMeasured every time
2024209100.0%84.6% – 100.0%100.0%
2023209100.0%85.1% – 100.0%100.0%
2022208100.0%85.6% – 100.0%100.0%
2021205100.0%83.6% – 100.0%100.0%
2020206100.0%85.7% – 100.0%100.0%
2019203100.0%81.7% – 100.0%100.0%
2018203100.0%78.2% – 100.0%100.0%
2017202100.0%79.4% – 100.0%100.0%
201620499.8%73.1% – 100.0%100.0%
201520998.9%64.6% – 100.0%100.0%
201420699.0%64.3% – 100.0%100.0%
201320498.4%63.6% – 100.0%100.0%
201220598.2%60.8% – 100.0%100.0%
201120497.7%58.1% – 100.0%100.0%
201020497.9%56.4% – 100.0%100.0%
200920197.4%51.7% – 100.0%100.0%
200820395.8%44.9% – 100.0%100.0%
200720294.3%42.5% – 100.0%100.0%
200620196.9%42.0% – 100.0%100.0%
200520094.8%42.5% – 100.0%100.0%
200420194.5%39.0% – 100.0%100.0%
200319993.9%37.5% – 100.0%100.0%
200219494.7%36.8% – 100.0%100.0%
200119295.1%40.8% – 100.0%100.0%
200019294.0%43.3% – 100.0%100.0%
1999156100.0%57.7% – 100.0%100.0%
1998152100.0%59.0% – 100.0%100.0%
1997147100.0%63.0% – 100.0%100.0%
1996145100.0%59.2% – 100.0%100.0%
1995136100.0%65.3% – 100.0%100.0%
1994129100.0%69.5% – 100.0%100.0%
1993122100.0%73.5% – 100.0%100.0%
1992114100.0%81.3% – 100.0%100.0%
1991103100.0%98.4% – 100.0%100.0%
199092100.0%100.0% – 100.0%100.0%

062023 → 2024

Who rose and fell

The biggest changes in value between the two newest editions — reference years recalculated in one report, not two separate publications. Places are shown second, because they also move when other countries do.

Improved most

before → after
  1. Papua New Guinea13.4% → 39.0%+25.6
  2. Gabon29.0% → 51.3%+22.3
  3. Botswana25.0% → 45.9%+20.9
  4. Djibouti37.0% → 53.9%+16.9
  5. Cameroon26.0% → 42.7%+16.7

Declined most

before → after
  1. Argentina100.0% → 79.8%−20.2
  2. Guatemala100.0% → 80.4%−19.6
  3. Syria72.8% → 61.6%−11.2
  4. Bolivia99.6% → 88.7%−10.9
  5. Nigeria32.9% → 23.5%−9.4

208 countries were measured in both 2023 and 2024.

07Across every edition

Rural access to electricity in records

The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.

08The measure

About rural access to electricity

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.

What the number is: Rural population with electricity access (%).

09Where it fits

Connections

Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.

All statistics

In the Country Index

Context, with no vote

This statistic is published in full under Development & Human Capital and Energy, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.

Development & Human CapitalEnergyWhich statistics vote, and why

Moves with

Where rural access to electricity is higher, these tend to be higher too.

Moves against

Where rural access to electricity is higher, these tend to be lower.

Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 382 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.

On the same subject

10Keep reading

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The countries at either end

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11Questions

Rural access to electricity: questions and answers

Which country has the highest rural access to electricity?

121 countries share the highest reading, 100.0%, among the 209 compared in 2024, so no single country is named.

Which country has the lowest rural access to electricity?

South Sudan, at 0.7%, among the 209 countries compared in 2024.

How many countries does the Access to Electricity, Rural cover?

209 in 2024, and 214 at least once across all editions. The number measured varies from 92 to 209 between editions.

What is the world average rural access to electricity?

This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 209 compared in 2024, the figure was 100.0%.

Is this World Bank Group’s own ranking?

No ranking is shown. World Bank Group publishes values only, and too many countries share the same value for an ordering to mean anything, so none is derived.

How often is the Access to Electricity, Rural published?

This site holds 35 reference years, 1990–2024, all recalculated in World Bank Group’s 2026 report on one method — not 35 separate publications.

Where does the data come from, and can I download it?

From World Bank Group, under CC BY 4.0. 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. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.

12Method

Sources, method and citation

Source

Access to Electricity, Rural — World Bank Group

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.

Newest edition

Report year 2024Data year 2024

Cite the source as: World Bank. Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report. Washington, DC: World Bank Group (ESMAP).

Licence: CC BY 4.0, checked 2026-09-29.

The full 2024 table, row for row

How this page reads the numbers

  • No rank or position is shown: World Bank Group publishes values only, and too many countries share the same value for an ordering to mean anything.
  • Which end is better follows the publisher’s own reading of the measure.
  • A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
  • Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.

The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.

Cite this page

Nations Inquiry (2026). Rural access to electricity by country: Access to Electricity, Rural, data from World Bank Group. https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/rural-electricity-access

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