Access to electricity in Mozambique

36.9% of people in Mozambique had access to electricity in 2024. The value for 2024 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1997.

Measure: Access to electricity Unit: % of population Data: 1997 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Mozambique, 2024 36.9% % of population
Change from 2023 +0.9percentage points 2023: 36.0%
World, 2024 91.9% Official aggregate
Position in 2024 206th of 215 See the full ranking

Access to electricity in Mozambique 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 MozambiqueWorld
2024 36.9% 91.9%
2023 36.0% 91.6%
2022 33.2% 91.3%
2021 31.5% 91.3%
2020 30.6% 90.4%
2019 29.7% 90.1%
2018 31.1% 89.8%
2017 24.3% 88.9%
2016 26.2% 88.1%
2015 24.0% 86.9%
2014 24.8% 86.2%
2013 22.4% 85.7%
2012 21.2% 84.9%
2011 20.2% 84.5%
2010 18.9% 83.5%
2009 15.0% 82.9%
2008 13.6% 82.7%
2007 12.4% 82.0%
2006 13.0% 81.4%
2005 11.8% 80.7%
2004 10.7% 80.0%
2003 8.1% 80.0%
2002 8.4% 79.1%
2001 5.7% 78.7%
2000 6.1% 78.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +0.9 percentage points from 36.0% in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 24.8%, the figure has changed by +12.1 percentage points.
  • Among the 215 countries with data for 2024, Mozambique has the 206th 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
1997 to 2024 for Mozambique
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