Pillar
Digital Infrastructure
Sub-pillar
Electricity coverage
Portal Indicator name
Access to electricity, Rural
Metrics
Access to electricity
Dimension
Rural
Output type
%
Input metric (short definition)
Access to electricity (% of rural population)
Aggregration
Weighted average
Periodicity
Annual
Long definition
Access to electricity is the percentage of population with access to electricity. Electrification data are collected from industry, national surveys and international sources.
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.
License
CC BY-4.0
Source
World Bank
Regional aggregrational method
Weighted average
Regional aggregrational calculation
sum of all individual (country data point*country rural population)/sum of all individual country rural populations)*100
Data Source