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Number of people without access to electricity, per square kilometre by country

Number of people without access to electricity divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
158
Highest
471.24 people per square kilometre
Burundi
Lowest
0 people per square kilometre
Samoa
Median
0.4615 people per square kilometre
Years covered
24
2000–2023
Data points
5,049

What the numbers show

Number of people without access to electricity, per square kilometre is currently reported for 158 countries. The highest value is 471.24 people per square kilometre in Burundi; the lowest is 0 people per square kilometre in Samoa.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.4615 people per square kilometre, and the mean is 17.01 people per square kilometre.

Over the past decade 19 countries rose and 117 fell. The largest increase was in Somalia (up 46.2%), and the largest decrease in Albania (down 100.0%).

Number of people without access to electricity, per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Burundi 471.24 people per square kilometre 2023 up 24.5% rising
2 Haiti 205.64 people per square kilometre 2023 down 9.3% flat
3 Rwanda 204.2 people per square kilometre 2023 down 46.4% falling
4 Malawi 188.93 people per square kilometre 2023 up 21.1% rising
5 Uganda 117.69 people per square kilometre 2023 down 22.4% rising
6 Nigeria 97.08 people per square kilometre 2023 up 10.0% rising
7 North Korea 93.25 people per square kilometre 2023 down 31.1% falling
8 Gambia 88.24 people per square kilometre 2023 down 12.5% falling
9 Sierra Leone 75.6 people per square kilometre 2023 down 6.0% rising
10 Burkina Faso 65.9 people per square kilometre 2023 up 20.4% rising
11 Togo 61.69 people per square kilometre 2023 down 16.4% falling
12 Benin 53.81 people per square kilometre 2023 down 13.2% rising
13 Ethiopia 50.86 people per square kilometre 2023 down 15.7% falling
14 Comoros 46.61 people per square kilometre 2023 down 59.3% falling
15 Guinea-Bissau 45.56 people per square kilometre 2023 down 9.7% flat
16 Sao Tome and Principe 44.97 people per square kilometre 2023 down 36.1% falling
17 Tanzania, United Republic of 38.88 people per square kilometre 2023 down 15.6% rising
18 Liberia 38.49 people per square kilometre 2023 down 8.0% flat
19 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 36.35 people per square kilometre 2023 up 28.2% rising
20 Lesotho 32.51 people per square kilometre 2023 down 34.3% falling
21 Madagascar 32.49 people per square kilometre 2023 down 10.0% rising
22 Guinea 28.67 people per square kilometre 2023 down 7.2% flat
23 Mozambique 27.37 people per square kilometre 2023 up 10.7% rising
24 Côte d'Ivoire 27.05 people per square kilometre 2023 down 6.7% flat
25 Senegal 24.22 people per square kilometre 2023 down 20.9% falling
26 Kenya 22.67 people per square kilometre 2023 down 52.1% falling
27 Equatorial Guinea 21.8 people per square kilometre 2023 up 33.2% rising
28 Micronesia, Federated States of 21.08 people per square kilometre 2023 down 55.4% falling
29 Grenada 19.28 people per square kilometre 2023 down 38.5% falling
30 Myanmar 19.24 people per square kilometre 2023 down 42.5% falling
31 Papua New Guinea 18.24 people per square kilometre 2023 up 21.0% rising
32 Djibouti 17.31 people per square kilometre 2023 down 1.6% rising
33 South Sudan 17.19 people per square kilometre 2023 up 1.1% flat
34 Cameroon 16.81 people per square kilometre 2023 down 15.1% flat
35 Niger 16.5 people per square kilometre 2023 up 33.1% rising
36 Zimbabwe 16.05 people per square kilometre 2023 down 25.4% flat
37 Ghana 15.59 people per square kilometre 2023 down 55.8% falling
38 Syria 14.9 people per square kilometre 2023 up 31.6% rising
39 Somalia 14.54 people per square kilometre 2023 up 46.2% falling
40 Angola 14.41 people per square kilometre 2023 up 11.5% rising
41 Pakistan 14.13 people per square kilometre 2023 down 51.8% falling
42 Zambia 13.63 people per square kilometre 2023 down 5.9% rising
43 Chad 13.5 people per square kilometre 2023 up 35.1% rising
44 Eritrea 13.06 people per square kilometre 2023 down 9.0% falling
45 Nepal 12.43 people per square kilometre 2023 down 71.4% volatile
46 Yemen 12.24 people per square kilometre 2023 down 9.7% falling
47 Vanuatu 10.09 people per square kilometre 2023 down 29.2% falling
48 Eswatini 9.73 people per square kilometre 2023 down 65.2% falling
49 Afghanistan 9.34 people per square kilometre 2023 down 39.8% volatile
50 Sudan 9.11 people per square kilometre 2023 down 20.9% falling
51 Mali 8.86 people per square kilometre 2023 down 8.4% flat
52 Congo 8.82 people per square kilometre 2023 up 7.8% rising
53 Philippines 7.71 people per square kilometre 2023 down 82.0% falling
54 Central African Republic 6.81 people per square kilometre 2023 up 3.3% rising
55 Kiribati 6.71 people per square kilometre 2023 down 77.5% falling
56 Nicaragua 6.63 people per square kilometre 2023 down 26.3% falling
57 Bangladesh 6.6 people per square kilometre 2023 down 98.6% volatile
58 South Africa 6.41 people per square kilometre 2023 down 3.9% falling
59 Jamaica 6.03 people per square kilometre 2023 down 61.5% volatile
60 Solomon Islands 5.34 people per square kilometre 2023 down 54.5% falling
61 El Salvador 5.18 people per square kilometre 2023 down 65.1% volatile
62 Cambodia 4.94 people per square kilometre 2023 down 88.3% volatile
63 Honduras 4.19 people per square kilometre 2023 down 58.8% falling
64 Trinidad and Tobago 3.47 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
65 Mauritania 2.42 people per square kilometre 2023 up 7.1% rising
66 India 2.42 people per square kilometre 2023 down 96.7% volatile
67 Cape Verde 1.81 people per square kilometre 2023 down 90.9% volatile
68 Panama 1.8 people per square kilometre 2023 down 67.9% falling
69 Namibia 1.56 people per square kilometre 2023 up 8.3% rising
70 Lao People's Democratic Republic 1.16 people per square kilometre 2023 down 80.4% volatile
71 Libya 1.11 people per square kilometre 2023 up 35.6% volatile
72 Botswana 1.05 people per square kilometre 2023 down 33.8% falling
73 Peru 1 people per square kilometre 2023 down 45.4% volatile
74 Ecuador 0.9411 people per square kilometre 2023 down 26.1% volatile
75 Dominican Republic 0.9404 people per square kilometre 2023 down 72.1% volatile
76 Indonesia 0.8915 people per square kilometre 2023 down 81.3% volatile
77 Viet Nam 0.6403 people per square kilometre 2023 down 85.2% volatile
78 Colombia 0.613 people per square kilometre 2023 down 33.0% volatile
79 Gabon 0.569 people per square kilometre 2023 down 43.7% falling
80 Fiji 0.3541 people per square kilometre 2023 down 91.4% volatile
81 Mexico 0.2002 people per square kilometre 2023 down 63.5% volatile
82 Belize 0.0721 people per square kilometre 2023 down 94.6% falling
83 Brazil 0.0505 people per square kilometre 2023 down 46.8% volatile
84 Guyana 0.0431 people per square kilometre 2023 down 91.9% falling
85 Paraguay 0.0346 people per square kilometre 2023 down 77.0% volatile
86 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.0226 people per square kilometre 2023 down 97.8% volatile
87 Suriname 0.0157 people per square kilometre 2023 down 91.8% falling
88 Aruba 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Albania 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Argentina 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Armenia 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Antigua and Barbuda 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Azerbaijan 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Bulgaria 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Belarus 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Barbados 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Bhutan 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Chile 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 China 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Costa Rica 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Cuba 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Dominica 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Algeria 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% falling
88 Egypt 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Georgia 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Gibraltar 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Guatemala 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Croatia 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Hungary 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Iran, Islamic Republic of 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Iraq 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Jordan 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Kazakhstan 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Kyrgyzstan 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Lebanon 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Saint Lucia 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Sri Lanka 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Lithuania 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Latvia 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Morocco 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Republic of Moldova 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Maldives 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Marshall Islands 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 North Macedonia 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Montenegro 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Mongolia 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Northern Mariana Islands 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Mauritius 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Malaysia 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Naoero 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Oman 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Palau 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Poland 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Palestine, State of 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Romania 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Russian Federation 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Saudi Arabia 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Serbia 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Slovakia 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Seychelles 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Turks and Caicos Islands 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Thailand 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Tajikistan 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Turkmenistan 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Timor-Leste 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Tonga 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Tunisia 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Türkiye 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Tuvalu 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Ukraine 0 people per square kilometre 2023 — volatile
88 Uruguay 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Uzbekistan 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 British Virgin Islands 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile
88 Samoa 0 people per square kilometre 2023 down 100.0% volatile

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Number of people without access to electricity divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Number of people without access to electricity ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Number of people without access to electricity, per square kilometre
Unit
people per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
214 places, 5,049 data points, 2000–2023
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Number of people without access to electricity divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.