Low & middle income | Access to electricity, urban (% of urban population)
Access to electricity, urban is the percentage of urban population with access to electricity. Statistical concept and methodology: The World Bank’s Global Electrification Database (GED) compiles nationally representative household survey data, and occasionally census data, from sources going back as far as 1990. The database also incorporates data from the Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean (SEDLAC), Middle East and North Africa Poverty Database (MNAPOV) and the Europe and Central Asia Poverty Database (ECAPOV), which are based on similar surveys. At the time of this analysis, the GED contained 1,375 surveys for 149 countries in 1990-2021.
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| 2000 | 92.68315284 |
| 2001 | 92.57741516 |
| 2002 | 92.82440354 |
| 2003 | 93.09848657 |
| 2004 | 93.10612977 |
| 2005 | 93.37006904 |
| 2006 | 93.66580896 |
| 2007 | 93.96281622 |
| 2008 | 94.02498276 |
| 2009 | 94.59099373 |
| 2010 | 94.46079506 |
| 2011 | 95.15873017 |
| 2012 | 95.31866626 |
| 2013 | 95.35110919 |
| 2014 | 95.47136574 |
| 2015 | 95.32106416 |
| 2016 | 95.93344485 |
| 2017 | 96.27692489 |
| 2018 | 96.15489799 |
| 2019 | 96.49215647 |
| 2020 | 96.4805907 |
| 2021 | 96.97301482 |
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Low & middle income | Access to electricity, urban (% of urban population)
Access to electricity, urban is the percentage of urban population with access to electricity. Statistical concept and methodology: The World Bank’s Global Electrification Database (GED) compiles nationally representative household survey data, and occasionally census data, from sources going back as far as 1990. The database also incorporates data from the Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean (SEDLAC), Middle East and North Africa Poverty Database (MNAPOV) and the Europe and Central Asia Poverty Database (ECAPOV), which are based on similar surveys. At the time of this analysis, the GED contained 1,375 surveys for 149 countries in 1990-2021.