Access to electricity in Mali

49.5% of people in Mali had access to electricity in 2024.

Measure: Access to electricity Unit: % of population Data: 1996 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Mali, 2024 49.5% % of population
Change from 2023 −5.0percentage points 2023: 54.5%
World, 2024 91.9% Official aggregate
Position in 2024 201st of 215 See the full ranking

Access to electricity in Mali 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 MaliWorld
2024 49.5% 91.9%
2023 54.5% 91.6%
2022 53.0% 91.3%
2021 53.4% 91.3%
2020 50.6% 90.4%
2019 47.9% 90.1%
2018 50.9% 89.8%
2017 34.8% 88.9%
2016 38.8% 88.1%
2015 37.6% 86.9%
2014 34.2% 86.2%
2013 32.4% 85.7%
2012 25.6% 84.9%
2011 28.8% 84.5%
2010 27.0% 83.5%
2009 24.0% 82.9%
2008 23.4% 82.7%
2007 21.7% 82.0%
2006 16.6% 81.4%
2005 18.2% 80.7%
2004 16.4% 80.0%
2003 14.7% 80.0%
2002 13.0% 79.1%
2001 10.8% 78.7%
2000 9.6% 78.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −5.0 percentage points from 54.5% in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 34.2%, the figure has changed by +15.3 percentage points.
  • Among the 215 countries with data for 2024, Mali has the 201st 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
1996 to 2024 for Mali
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