Access to electricity in Kiribati

97.7% of people in Kiribati 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
Kiribati, 2024 97.7% % of population
Change from 2023 +1.8percentage points 2023: 95.9%
World, 2024 91.9% Official aggregate
Position in 2024 144th of 215 See the full ranking

Access to electricity in Kiribati 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 KiribatiWorld
2024 97.7% 91.9%
2023 95.9% 91.6%
2022 94.4% 91.3%
2021 92.8% 91.3%
2020 91.0% 90.4%
2019 89.3% 90.1%
2018 87.5% 89.8%
2017 85.7% 88.9%
2016 92.6% 88.1%
2015 90.6% 86.9%
2014 83.4% 86.2%
2013 78.8% 85.7%
2012 76.7% 84.9%
2011 74.9% 84.5%
2010 63.2% 83.5%
2009 64.2% 82.9%
2008 69.4% 82.7%
2007 67.7% 82.0%
2006 68.8% 81.4%
2005 69.7% 80.7%
2004 62.4% 80.0%
2003 60.7% 80.0%
2002 59.0% 79.1%
2001 57.3% 78.7%
2000 55.6% 78.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +1.8 percentage points from 95.9% in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 83.4%, the figure has changed by +14.3 percentage points.
  • Among the 215 countries with data for 2024, Kiribati has the 144th 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 Kiribati
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