Access to electricity (% of population)

Dataset EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS published by World Bank, World Development Indicators. This page describes the source table. The measures below are the specific selections this site takes from it.

About the source table

Publisher: World Bank, World Development Indicators
Original producer: World Bank, SDG 7.1.1 Electrification Dataset
Code: EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS
Last update by provider: 8 October 2026
Last checked here: 9 November 2026
Licence (series metadata): CC BY-4.0
Source note: SDG 7.1.1 Electrification Dataset, World Bank (WB), uri: https://trackingsdg7.esmap.org/downloads, note: Data is downloaded from ESMAP website. Data is released when a new Tracking SDG7 report is released., publisher: World Bank (WB), date accessed: 2024-05-16, date published: 2023

Definition published with the series

Access to electricity is the percentage of population with access to electricity. Electrification data are collected from industry, national surveys and international sources.

Measures taken from this dataset

Measure	Fixed selection	Unit
Access to electricity	EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS	% of population