Access to electricity in Timor-Leste

94.3% of people in Timor-Leste had access to electricity in 2024.

Measure: Access to electricity Unit: % of population Data: 2000 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Timor-Leste, 2024 94.3% % of population
Change from 2023 −5.7percentage points 2023: 100.0%
World, 2024 91.9% Official aggregate
Position in 2024 156th of 215 See the full ranking

Access to electricity in Timor-Leste 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 Timor-LesteWorld
2024 94.3% 91.9%
2023 100.0% 91.6%
2022 99.7% 91.3%
2021 100.0% 91.3%
2020 96.0% 90.4%
2019 90.6% 90.1%
2018 85.2% 89.8%
2017 79.5% 88.9%
2016 76.5% 88.1%
2015 67.3% 86.9%
2014 62.4% 86.2%
2013 59.2% 85.7%
2012 56.0% 84.9%
2011 52.7% 84.5%
2010 38.0% 83.5%
2009 46.3% 82.9%
2008 43.1% 82.7%
2007 36.6% 82.0%
2006 36.7% 81.4%
2005 33.5% 80.7%
2004 30.4% 80.0%
2003 27.7% 80.0%
2002 24.1% 79.1%
2001 25.6% 78.7%
2000 17.8% 78.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of −5.7 percentage points from 100.0% in 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 62.4%, the figure has changed by +31.9 percentage points.
  • Among the 215 countries with data for 2024, Timor-Leste has the 156th 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 Timor-Leste
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