Share of the population with access to electricity: High-income countries, earlier edition

This site's figures come from the World Bank's World Development Indicators as Our World in Data published them in its edition of 27 July 2026. Our World in Data's catalogue also keeps its edition of 29 January 2026, in which this series is "Access to electricity (% of population)". Both are below, year by year.

1 of the 34 years in both editions differ. 1 year appears only in the later edition.

The earlier edition is stored as single-precision numbers, which keep about seven significant digits, so its values are given to six. A year counts as differing only when the two editions disagree beyond that precision; where they agree, the value is given as this site gives it.

Year	This site (% of population)	Edition of 29 January 2026	Differs
2024	99.967964	none
2023	99.9884	99.9884	no
2022	99.9798	99.9798	no
2021	99.97989	99.97989	no
2020	99.96831	99.96831	no
2019	99.94961	99.94961	no
2018	99.96265	99.96265	no
2017	99.959724	99.959724	no
2016	99.87494	99.87494	no
2015	99.44125	99.44125	no
2014	99.917206	99.917206	no
2013	99.898735	99.898735	no
2012	99.89514	99.89514	no
2011	99.784424	99.784424	no
2010	99.78157	99.7819	yes
2009	99.67244	99.67244	no
2008	99.62511	99.62511	no
2007	99.594444	99.594444	no
2006	99.58443	99.58443	no
2005	99.53323	99.53323	no
2004	99.523186	99.523186	no
2003	99.52843	99.52843	no
2002	99.48633	99.48633	no
2001	99.466446	99.466446	no
2000	99.44164	99.44164	no
1999	99.88576	99.88576	no
1998	99.89074	99.89074	no
1997	99.87644	99.87644	no
1996	99.864555	99.864555	no
1995	99.86734	99.86734	no
1994	99.86233	99.86233	no
1993	99.85919	99.85919	no
1992	99.86622	99.86622	no
1991	99.87714	99.87714	no
1990	99.84105	99.84105	no

Earlier edition: Our World in Data's catalogue table and its metadata. This figure on this site · Versions.