Access to electricity in Ghana

91.9% of people in Ghana had access to electricity in 2024. The value for 2024 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1993.

Measure: Access to electricity Unit: % of population Data: 1993 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Ghana, 2024 91.9% % of population
Change from 2023 +2.4percentage points 2023: 89.5%
World, 2024 91.9% Official aggregate
Position in 2024 158th of 215 See the full ranking

Access to electricity in Ghana 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 GhanaWorld
2024 91.9% 91.9%
2023 89.5% 91.6%
2022 85.1% 91.3%
2021 86.3% 91.3%
2020 85.4% 90.4%
2019 83.5% 90.1%
2018 80.4% 89.8%
2017 79.0% 88.9%
2016 79.3% 88.1%
2015 74.0% 86.9%
2014 78.3% 86.2%
2013 70.7% 85.7%
2012 56.5% 84.9%
2011 64.1% 84.5%
2010 64.2% 83.5%
2009 61.1% 82.9%
2008 60.5% 82.7%
2007 56.9% 82.0%
2006 55.1% 81.4%
2005 41.2% 80.7%
2004 50.8% 80.0%
2003 48.3% 80.0%
2002 46.8% 79.1%
2001 44.8% 78.7%
2000 43.7% 78.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +2.4 percentage points from 89.5% in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 78.3%, the figure has changed by +13.6 percentage points.
  • Among the 215 countries with data for 2024, Ghana has the 158th 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
1993 to 2024 for Ghana
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