Access to electricity in Angola

55.5% of people in Angola had access to electricity in 2024. The value for 2024 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2000.

Measure: Access to electricity Unit: % of population Data: 2000 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Angola, 2024 55.5% % of population
Change from 2023 +4.4percentage points 2023: 51.1%
World, 2024 91.9% Official aggregate
Position in 2024 191st of 215 See the full ranking

Access to electricity in Angola over time

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% of population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Access to electricity (% of population), 2000 to 2024
Period AngolaWorld
2024 55.5% 91.9%
2023 51.1% 91.6%
2022 48.5% 91.3%
2021 48.2% 91.3%
2020 47.0% 90.4%
2019 45.6% 90.1%
2018 45.3% 89.8%
2017 42.9% 88.9%
2016 41.8% 88.1%
2015 42.0% 86.9%
2014 32.0% 86.2%
2013 38.4% 85.7%
2012 37.3% 84.9%
2011 34.6% 84.5%
2010 35.0% 83.5%
2009 33.8% 82.9%
2008 38.5% 82.7%
2007 37.5% 82.0%
2006 30.5% 81.4%
2005 29.4% 80.7%
2004 28.4% 80.0%
2003 27.4% 80.0%
2002 26.3% 79.1%
2001 20.0% 78.7%
2000 24.2% 78.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +4.4 percentage points from 51.1% in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 32.0%, the figure has changed by +23.5 percentage points.
  • Among the 215 countries with data for 2024, Angola has the 191st highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2024 was 91.9%.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank, SDG 7.1.1 Electrification Dataset
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2000 to 2024 for Angola
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank, SDG 7.1.1 Electrification Dataset