Who has electricity?
Click any country to see the share of its population with access to electricity — and how that's changed since 2000.
Global figures are population-weighted across countries that report electricity access. “Without electricity” applies each country's rate to its population and is an estimate.
Overview
More than nine in ten people worldwide now have access to electricity. This map shows the share with power at home for every country, and how quickly it has risen since 2000.
Key facts
- About 92% of the world's population has access to electricity (population-weighted).
- South Sudan has the lowest access, at roughly 5%.
- Around 700 million people still live without electricity, concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa.
- Data is the World Bank's “access to electricity (% of population)”, current to 2023.
Common questions
What counts as access to electricity?
Whether a household has an electricity connection it can use — from a grid or an off-grid source such as solar — as measured by the World Bank.
Which country has the least access to electricity?
South Sudan, where only about 5% of the population has electricity — the lowest in the world.
How many people lack electricity?
Roughly 700 million worldwide, the large majority of them in sub-Saharan Africa.
Where does the data come from?
The World Bank's electricity-access series, compiled via Our World in Data, with population from the World Bank.
Sources & methodology
Data from World Bank, compiled via Our World in Data. The global average is population-weighted across the countries that report this measure; countries without reliable recent data are shown as “no data”.
Last updated: 6 July 2026.