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Countries by share of people with electricity

Albania had the highest share of people with electricity of 214 countries in 2018, at 100%. South Sudan had the lowest, at 6.3%. The median was 99.8% and the figure for the World was 89.8%. Source: the World Bank.

Highest100Albania
Lowest6.3South Sudan
Median99.8214 countries
World89.8History

Top 40 countries, 2018

Albania: 100 %Albania100Andorra: 100 %Andorra100Antigua and Barbuda: 100 %Antigua and Barbuda100Argentina: 100 %Argentina100Aruba: 100 %Aruba100Australia: 100 %Australia100Austria: 100 %Austria100Azerbaijan: 100 %Azerbaijan100Bahamas: 100 %Bahamas100Bahrain: 100 %Bahrain100Barbados: 100 %Barbados100Belgium: 100 %Belgium100Bermuda: 100 %Bermuda100Bhutan: 100 %Bhutan100Bosnia and Herzegovina: 100 %Bosnia and Herzegovina100British Virgin Islands: 100 %British Virgin Islands100Brunei: 100 %Brunei100Canada: 100 %Canada100Cayman Islands: 100 %Cayman Islands100Chile: 100 %Chile100China: 100 %China100Croatia: 100 %Croatia100Curaçao: 100 %Curaçao100Cyprus: 100 %Cyprus100Czechia: 100 %Czechia100Denmark: 100 %Denmark100Egypt: 100 %Egypt100Estonia: 100 %Estonia100Faroe Islands: 100 %Faroe Islands100Finland: 100 %Finland100France: 100 %France100French Polynesia: 100 %French Polynesia100Germany: 100 %Germany100Gibraltar: 100 %Gibraltar100Greece: 100 %Greece100Greenland: 100 %Greenland100Guam: 100 %Guam100Hong Kong: 100 %Hong Kong100Hungary: 100 %Hungary100Iceland: 100 %Iceland100
%. Source: World Bank, Access to electricity, % of population (EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS). Retrieved 2026-10-11.

Full ranking

RankCountries2018 (%)Change on 2017
1Albania100+0.1 pts
1Andorra1000 pts
1Antigua and Barbuda1000 pts
1Argentina1000 pts
1Aruba1000 pts
1Australia1000 pts
1Austria1000 pts
1Azerbaijan1000 pts
1Bahamas1000 pts
1Bahrain1000 pts
1Barbados1000 pts
1Belgium1000 pts
1Bermuda1000 pts
1Bhutan100+2.3 pts
1Bosnia and Herzegovina1000 pts
1British Virgin Islands1000 pts
1Brunei1000 pts
1Canada1000 pts
1Cayman Islands1000 pts
1Chile100+0.3 pts
1China1000 pts
1Croatia1000 pts
1Curaçao1000 pts
1Cyprus1000 pts
1Czechia1000 pts
1Denmark1000 pts
1Egypt1000 pts
1Estonia1000 pts
1Faroe Islands1000 pts
1Finland1000 pts
1France1000 pts
1French Polynesia1000 pts
1Germany1000 pts
1Gibraltar1000 pts
1Greece1000 pts
1Greenland1000 pts
1Guam1000 pts
1Hong Kong1000 pts
1Hungary1000 pts
1Iceland1000 pts
1Iran100+0.1 pts
1Ireland1000 pts
1Isle of Man1000 pts
1Israel1000 pts
1Italy1000 pts
1Japan1000 pts
1Kazakhstan1000 pts
1Kuwait1000 pts
1Kyrgyzstan1000 pts
1Latvia1000 pts
1Liechtenstein1000 pts
1Lithuania1000 pts
1Luxembourg1000 pts
1Macao1000 pts
1Malaysia1000 pts
1Maldives100+0.2 pts
1Malta1000 pts
1Moldova1000 pts
1Monaco1000 pts
1Montenegro1000 pts
1Netherlands1000 pts
1New Caledonia1000 pts
1New Zealand1000 pts
1Northern Mariana Islands1000 pts
1Norway1000 pts
1Oman1000 pts
1Palau1000 pts
1Palestine100+0.1 pts
1Poland1000 pts
1Portugal1000 pts
1Puerto Rico1000 pts
1Qatar1000 pts
1Russia1000 pts
1Saint Kitts and Nevis1000 pts
1Saint Lucia100+0.1 pts
1Saint Martin1000 pts
1Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1000 pts
1San Marino1000 pts
1Serbia1000 pts
1Seychelles1000 pts
1Singapore1000 pts
1Sint Maarten1000 pts
1Slovakia1000 pts
1Slovenia1000 pts
1South Korea1000 pts
1Spain1000 pts
1Sweden1000 pts
1Switzerland1000 pts
1Trinidad and Tobago1000 pts
1Türkiye1000 pts
1Turkmenistan1000 pts
1Turks and Caicos Islands1000 pts
1U.S. Virgin Islands1000 pts
1Ukraine1000 pts
1United Arab Emirates1000 pts
1United Kingdom1000 pts
1United States1000 pts
1Uzbekistan1000 pts
1Vietnam1000 pts
100Armenia99.9+0.2 pts
100Georgia99.9-0.1 pts
100Iraq99.90 pts
100Jordan99.9-0.1 pts
100Nauru99.9+0.1 pts
100Saudi Arabia99.9-0.1 pts
100Venezuela99.9+0.7 pts
107Mauritius99.8+0.2 pts
107North Macedonia99.8-0.2 pts
107Romania99.8-0.2 pts
107Samoa99.8+3 pts
107Thailand99.8-0.1 pts
107Tunisia99.8-0.2 pts
107Uruguay99.80 pts
114Brazil99.7-0.1 pts
114Costa Rica99.7+0.1 pts
114Lebanon99.7-0.2 pts
117Algeria99.6+0.1 pts
117Cuba99.6+0.2 pts
117Dominica99.6+0.7 pts
117Paraguay99.6+0.3 pts
117Sri Lanka99.6+2.1 pts
122Mexico99.5-0.5 pts
123Belarus99.3+0.6 pts
123Tajikistan99.30 pts
125Tonga99+0.8 pts
125Tuvalu99+0.3 pts
127Dominican Republic98.9-1.1 pts
128Bulgaria98.7+0.6 pts
128Ecuador98.7-0.5 pts
130Colombia98.50 pts
130Indonesia98.5+0.4 pts
132Jamaica98.2+0.8 pts
133Mongolia98.1+4.5 pts
133Morocco98.1-1.9 pts
135Suriname97.4+0.8 pts
136El Salvador97+0.2 pts
137India95.7+3.9 pts
138Marshall Islands95.3+1.5 pts
139Peru95.2+0.4 pts
140Fiji95.1-0.9 pts
141Guatemala94.2+0.9 pts
141Philippines94.2+1.2 pts
143Nepal93.9+7.3 pts
144Panama93.8+0.1 pts
145Afghanistan93.4-4.3 pts
145Pakistan93.4+0.7 pts
147Laos92.9-0.7 pts
148Bolivia92.8+1 pts
149Grenada92.3+0.1 pts
150Belize91.7-2.5 pts
151Honduras91.6+5.1 pts
152Guyana90.9+0.9 pts
153Cape Verde90.2+1.6 pts
154Gabon89.6+3.3 pts
155Kiribati87.5+1.8 pts
156Bangladesh86.9-1.1 pts
157Syria86-3.6 pts
158Nicaragua85.2+0.6 pts
158Timor-Leste85.2+5.7 pts
160South Africa84.7+0.3 pts
161Comoros81+2.3 pts
162Cambodia80.7-8.4 pts
163Ghana80.4+1.4 pts
164Micronesia78.3+1.8 pts
165Eswatini74+0.5 pts
166São Tomé and Príncipe71-3.3 pts
167Botswana68.3+0.9 pts
168Côte d’Ivoire67.1+1.5 pts
169Libya67-3.6 pts
170Equatorial Guinea66.5+0.1 pts
171Myanmar66.1-3.7 pts
172Senegal66+4.3 pts
173Solomon Islands65.8+2.9 pts
174Djibouti62.4+2.2 pts
175Cameroon62.2+1.3 pts
176Yemen62-17.2 pts
177Vanuatu61.6-1.2 pts
178Kenya61.2+5.4 pts
179Gambia60.3+4.1 pts
180Nigeria56.5+2.1 pts
181Sudan55.3+2.3 pts
182Namibia52.3-0.2 pts
183Mali50.9+16.1 pts
184Somalia50.7-1.4 pts
185Togo50+2 pts
186Eritrea49.1+1.1 pts
187Lesotho47+13.3 pts
187Republic of the Congo47+0.8 pts
189North Korea46.3+2.1 pts
190Zimbabwe45.4+1.4 pts
191Angola45.3+2.4 pts
192Guinea45+9.6 pts
193Ethiopia44.8+0.5 pts
194Haiti44.4+1.1 pts
195Mauritania43.6+0.7 pts
196Uganda41.9+9.5 pts
197Zambia40.2-0.1 pts
198Benin39+4.5 pts
199Rwanda38+3.9 pts
200Madagascar36.5+12.4 pts
201Tanzania34.9+2.8 pts
202Mozambique31.1+6.8 pts
203Guinea-Bissau28.4+2.4 pts
204Sierra Leone26.1+2.7 pts
205Liberia22.8-1.4 pts
206Democratic Republic of the Congo18.7+0.7 pts
207Malawi18+5.3 pts
208Niger17.60 pts
209Papua New Guinea16.6-2.6 pts
210Central African Republic14.6+0.5 pts
211Burkina Faso14.4-2.6 pts
212Chad10.1-0.8 pts
213Burundi9.5+0.2 pts
214South Sudan6.3+2.1 pts

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About this ranking

Share of the population with access to electricity. World Bank series for the Sustainable Development Goal 7.1.1 electrification indicator, based mainly on household surveys.

Based mainly on household surveys, so year-to-year changes can reflect new survey rounds rather than new connections.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

World Bank, World Development Indicators. Access to electricity, % of population (EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS. Retrieved 2026-10-11.

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Which country has the highest share of people with electricity?

Albania, with 100% in 2018, according to the World Bank.

Which country has the lowest share of people with electricity?

South Sudan, with 6.3% in 2018.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: World Bank, Access to electricity, % of population (EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS). Retrieved 2026-10-11.

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