# Share of the population with access to electricity: Upper-middle-income countries

99.315285% in 2024, the latest year published. Figures for 25 years from 2000 to 2024 are below.

Access to electricity means having an electricity source that can provide very basic lighting, and charge a phone or power a radio for 4 hours per day.

Source: Data compiled from multiple sources by the World Bank – with minor processing by Our World in Data. [Source and method](/sources/electricity-access) · [All countries and regions](/electricity-access).

## Every year

| Year | Value (% of population) |
| ---: | ---: |
| 2024 | 99.315285 |
| 2023 | 99.3929 |
| 2022 | 99.35376 |
| 2021 | 99.38721 |
| 2020 | 99.139 |
| 2019 | 99.13087 |
| 2018 | 99.0284 |
| 2017 | 98.95311 |
| 2016 | 98.77569 |
| 2015 | 98.618515 |
| 2014 | 98.55682 |
| 2013 | 98.342155 |
| 2012 | 98.13306 |
| 2011 | 97.964226 |
| 2010 | 97.643196 |
| 2009 | 97.12563 |
| 2008 | 96.614235 |
| 2007 | 96.09447 |
| 2006 | 96.00897 |
| 2005 | 95.08216 |
| 2004 | 95.315254 |
| 2003 | 94.58799 |
| 2002 | 94.41202 |
| 2001 | 93.82841 |
| 2000 | 93.38359 |

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