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Access to electricity in Africa

Access to electricity in Africa: latest available values for 54 countries, observation years, World Bank source and CSV export. The figures below come from prepared World Bank datasets. Every row shows its year; missing data is never replaced with an estimate.

Coverage : 54/54 countries · Source code : EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS · Retrieved : 2026-10-20

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Values by country

Access to electricity · Latest available observation, with each country’s actual year
CountryAccess to electricityYearSource
Algeria100 %2024World Bank WDI
Angola55.5 %2024World Bank WDI
Benin59 %2024World Bank WDI
Botswana80.2 %2024World Bank WDI
Burkina Faso34 %2024World Bank WDI
Burundi20.1 %2024World Bank WDI
Cabo Verde98.4 %2024World Bank WDI
Cameroon72 %2024World Bank WDI
Central African Republic18.2 %2024World Bank WDI
Chad13.4 %2024World Bank WDI
Comoros91.7 %2024World Bank WDI
Congo, Rep.53 %2024World Bank WDI
Côte d’Ivoire72.9 %2024World Bank WDI
Djibouti69.2 %2024World Bank WDI
DR Congo22.5 %2024World Bank WDI
Egypt100 %2024World Bank WDI
Equatorial Guinea65.1 %2024World Bank WDI
Eritrea55.3 %2024World Bank WDI
Eswatini89.3 %2024World Bank WDI
Ethiopia56.6 %2024World Bank WDI
Gabon95.1 %2024World Bank WDI
Ghana91.9 %2024World Bank WDI
Guinea53.8 %2024World Bank WDI
Guinea-Bissau43.7 %2024World Bank WDI
Kenya77 %2024World Bank WDI
Lesotho60.6 %2024World Bank WDI
Liberia34.9 %2024World Bank WDI
Libya77.4 %2024World Bank WDI
Madagascar42.5 %2024World Bank WDI
Malawi15.6 %2024World Bank WDI
Mali49.5 %2024World Bank WDI
Mauritania52.2 %2024World Bank WDI
Mauritius100 %2024World Bank WDI
Morocco100 %2024World Bank WDI
Mozambique36.9 %2024World Bank WDI
Namibia59.3 %2024World Bank WDI
Niger21.3 %2024World Bank WDI
Nigeria62.5 %2024World Bank WDI
Rwanda72 %2024World Bank WDI
São Tomé and Príncipe77.7 %2024World Bank WDI
Senegal82.9 %2024World Bank WDI
Seychelles100 %2024World Bank WDI
Sierra Leone39.2 %2024World Bank WDI
Somalia54.4 %2024World Bank WDI
South Africa90.2 %2024World Bank WDI
South Sudan5.4 %2024World Bank WDI
Sudan66 %2024World Bank WDI
Tanzania52.4 %2024World Bank WDI
The Gambia69 %2024World Bank WDI
Togo61.1 %2024World Bank WDI
Tunisia100 %2024World Bank WDI
Uganda55.3 %2024World Bank WDI
Zambia53.6 %2024World Bank WDI
Zimbabwe62 %2024World Bank WDI

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