Access to electricity vs. GDP per capita
Use escrito dataset owid.access-to-electricity-vs-gdp-per-capita
Access to electricity means having an electricity source that can provide very basic lighting, and charge a phone or power a radio for 4 hours per day. Average economic output per person in a country or region per year. This data is adjusted for inflation and differences in living costs between countries. Regions defined by Our World in Data, which are used in OWID charts and maps.
Cite as: Data compiled from multiple sources by the World Bank – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Share of the population with access to electricity – World Bank” [dataset]. SDG 7.1.1 Electrification Dataset, World Bank, via World Bank, “World Development Indicators 129” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1990–2025
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-07-27
- Units
- % of population; international-$ in 2021 prices
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/access-to-electricity-vs-gdp-per-capita
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| eg_elc_accs_zs | number | Share of the population with access to electricity (% of population) |
| ny_gdp_pcap_pp_kd | number | GDP per capita (international-$ in 2021 prices) |
| owid_region | text | World region according to OWID |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |