Access to electricity in Somalia, Fed. Rep.

54.4% of people in Somalia, Fed. Rep. 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
Somalia, Fed. Rep., 2024 54.4% % of population
Change from 2023 +4.1percentage points 2023: 50.3%
World, 2024 91.9% Official aggregate
Position in 2024 194th of 215 See the full ranking

Access to electricity in Somalia, Fed. Rep. 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 Somalia, Fed. Rep.World
2024 54.4% 91.9%
2023 50.3% 91.6%
2022 48.9% 91.3%
2021 49.3% 91.3%
2020 49.9% 90.4%
2019 49.2% 90.1%
2018 50.7% 89.8%
2017 52.1% 88.9%
2016 51.1% 88.1%
2015 51.2% 86.9%
2014 51.4% 86.2%
2013 51.5% 85.7%
2012 51.8% 84.9%
2011 52.0% 84.5%
2010 52.3% 83.5%
2009 25.5% 82.9%
2008 22.9% 82.7%
2007 20.2% 82.0%
2006 15.2% 81.4%
2005 15.0% 80.7%
2004 12.4% 80.0%
2003 9.8% 80.0%
2002 7.4% 79.1%
2001 4.7% 78.7%
2000 2.1% 78.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +4.1 percentage points from 50.3% in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 51.4%, the figure has changed by +3.0 percentage points.
  • Among the 215 countries with data for 2024, Somalia, Fed. Rep. has the 194th highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2024 was 91.9%.

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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 Somalia, Fed. Rep.
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