Access to electricity (% of population)

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

Data table

Year	World (%)
1998	73.2
1999	74.51
2000	78.22
2001	78.72
2002	79.1
2003	79.97
2004	79.96
2005	80.7
2006	81.36
2007	81.97
2008	82.67
2009	82.87
2010	83.45
2011	84.51
2012	84.94
2013	85.71
2014	86.2
2015	86.93
2016	88.11
2017	88.94
2018	89.8
2019	90.11
2020	90.4
2021	91.34
2022	91.28
2023	91.6
2024	91.93

Per-source values, 2024

Caveats

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