Access to electricity in Ethiopia

56.6% of people in Ethiopia 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
Ethiopia, 2024 56.6% % of population
Change from 2023 +1.2percentage points 2023: 55.4%
World, 2024 91.9% Official aggregate
Position in 2024 190th of 215 See the full ranking

Access to electricity in Ethiopia 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 EthiopiaWorld
2024 56.6% 91.9%
2023 55.4% 91.6%
2022 55.0% 91.3%
2021 54.2% 91.3%
2020 51.1% 90.4%
2019 48.0% 90.1%
2018 44.8% 89.8%
2017 44.3% 88.9%
2016 42.9% 88.1%
2015 29.0% 86.9%
2014 27.2% 86.2%
2013 30.8% 85.7%
2012 29.0% 84.9%
2011 23.0% 84.5%
2010 25.5% 83.5%
2009 23.7% 82.9%
2008 22.0% 82.7%
2007 20.3% 82.0%
2006 18.6% 81.4%
2005 14.0% 80.7%
2004 15.2% 80.0%
2003 13.5% 80.0%
2002 11.9% 79.1%
2001 10.2% 78.7%
2000 12.7% 78.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +1.2 percentage points from 55.4% in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 27.2%, the figure has changed by +29.4 percentage points.
  • Among the 215 countries with data for 2024, Ethiopia has the 190th 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 Ethiopia
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