Access to electricity in Guinea

53.8% of people in Guinea had access to electricity in 2024. The value for 2024 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1999.

Measure: Access to electricity Unit: % of population Data: 1999 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Guinea, 2024 53.8% % of population
Change from 2023 +2.7percentage points 2023: 51.1%
World, 2024 91.9% Official aggregate
Position in 2024 196th of 215 See the full ranking

Access to electricity in Guinea over time

View
Places
2 selected
Guinea World ×

% 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 GuineaWorld
2024 53.8% 91.9%
2023 51.1% 91.6%
2022 47.7% 91.3%
2021 46.8% 91.3%
2020 44.7% 90.4%
2019 42.2% 90.1%
2018 45.0% 89.8%
2017 35.4% 88.9%
2016 33.5% 88.1%
2015 34.9% 86.9%
2014 33.5% 86.2%
2013 32.2% 85.7%
2012 26.2% 84.9%
2011 29.5% 84.5%
2010 28.1% 83.5%
2009 26.7% 82.9%
2008 25.4% 82.7%
2007 24.1% 82.0%
2006 22.8% 81.4%
2005 20.2% 80.7%
2004 20.2% 80.0%
2003 18.9% 80.0%
2002 17.7% 79.1%
2001 16.4% 78.7%
2000 15.2% 78.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +2.7 percentage points from 51.1% in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 33.5%, the figure has changed by +20.3 percentage points.
  • Among the 215 countries with data for 2024, Guinea has the 196th 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
1999 to 2024 for Guinea
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