Access to electricity in Cabo Verde

98.4% of people in Cabo Verde had access to electricity in 2024.

Measure: Access to electricity Unit: % of population Data: 2000 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Cabo Verde, 2024 98.4% % of population
Change from 2023 −0.2percentage points 2023: 98.6%
World, 2024 91.9% Official aggregate
Position in 2024 141st of 215 See the full ranking

Access to electricity in Cabo Verde 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 Cabo VerdeWorld
2024 98.4% 91.9%
2023 98.6% 91.6%
2022 97.1% 91.3%
2021 95.5% 91.3%
2020 93.7% 90.4%
2019 91.4% 90.1%
2018 90.2% 89.8%
2017 88.6% 88.9%
2016 87.5% 88.1%
2015 86.4% 86.9%
2014 85.3% 86.2%
2013 84.3% 85.7%
2012 83.2% 84.9%
2011 82.3% 84.5%
2010 81.1% 83.5%
2009 74.1% 82.9%
2008 72.3% 82.7%
2007 70.5% 82.0%
2006 68.8% 81.4%
2005 67.0% 80.7%
2004 65.4% 80.0%
2003 63.7% 80.0%
2002 58.6% 79.1%
2001 60.3% 78.7%
2000 58.6% 78.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −0.2 percentage points from 98.6% in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 85.3%, the figure has changed by +13.1 percentage points.
  • Among the 215 countries with data for 2024, Cabo Verde has the 141st 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 Cabo Verde
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