Access to electricity in Tonga

100.0% of people in Tonga had access to electricity in 2024.

Measure: Access to electricity Unit: % of population Data: 1994 to 2024 Source: World Bank
Tonga, 2024 100.0% % of population
Change from 2023 0percentage points 2023: 100.0%
World, 2024 91.9% Official aggregate
Position in 2024 97th of 215 See the full ranking

Access to electricity in Tonga 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 TongaWorld
2024 100.0% 91.9%
2023 100.0% 91.6%
2022 100.0% 91.3%
2021 100.0% 91.3%
2020 99.9% 90.4%
2019 98.4% 90.1%
2018 99.0% 89.8%
2017 98.2% 88.9%
2016 97.0% 88.1%
2015 100.0% 86.9%
2014 95.9% 86.2%
2013 95.1% 85.7%
2012 92.8% 84.9%
2011 92.2% 84.5%
2010 92.8% 83.5%
2009 92.0% 82.9%
2008 91.2% 82.7%
2007 90.5% 82.0%
2006 92.3% 81.4%
2005 89.0% 80.7%
2004 88.3% 80.0%
2003 87.6% 80.0%
2002 87.0% 79.1%
2001 86.3% 78.7%
2000 85.6% 78.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is unchanged from 2023.
  • Since 2014, when it was 95.9%, the figure has changed by +4.1 percentage points.
  • Among the 215 countries with data for 2024, Tonga has the 97th 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
1994 to 2024 for Tonga
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