Access to electricity (% of population)

Indicator id: access_electricity · Unit: % · Coverage: 1990-2023

Percentage of population with access to electricity, whether measured by a household survey or an administrative dataset.

Sources

• World Bank (preferred) -- dataset WDI, code EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS (https://data.worldbank.org)
• Our World in Data -- dataset share-of-the-population-with-access-to-electricity, code eg_elc_accs_zs (https://ourworldindata.org)

Reconciliation note: OWID republishes the same World Bank EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS series verbatim; matched exactly for Nepal's 2024 figure (97.9%).

Caveats

Nepal has reached near-universal grid access in recent years despite continued load-shedding/reliability issues not captured by this indicator.

Taxonomy

SDG: SDG 7.1 -- Ensure universal access to affordable, reliable, modern energy services
Topic: Energy & Mining, Infrastructure
Themes: infrastructure

Also known as

"electricity access", "electrification rate", "who has electricity"

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