Data for 1991

Access to Electricity, 1991

Name: Access to Electricity, 1991
Creator: World Bank Group
License: https://data.worldbank.org/summary-terms-of-use

1991, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Access to Electricity, 1991 covers 109 countries. 71 countries share the highest reading, 100.0000; Uganda is lowest, at 5.6000. The middle country reads 100.0000. Against 1990, 27 values changed (24 up, 3 down), 11 countries joined.

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Access to Electricity · Data for 1991

Highest71 countries share it

100.0000

LowestUganda

5.6000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

109countries
1measure
1991the year it describes
38distinct values13 decimals, as published
Sep 6, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Access to Electricity, 1991, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

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Access to Electricity, 1991: every country, as published by World Bank Group.

Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	100.0000
Andorra`AND`Southern Europe	100.0000
Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	100.0000
Austria`AUT`Western Europe	100.0000
Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	100.0000
Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	100.0000
Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	100.0000
Bermuda`BMU`Northern America	100.0000
Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	100.0000
Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	100.0000
Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	100.0000
Canada`CAN`Northern America	100.0000
Channel Islands`CHI`Northern Europe	100.0000
Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	100.0000
Curaçao`CUW`Caribbean	100.0000
Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	100.0000
Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	100.0000
Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	100.0000
Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	100.0000
Faroe Islands`FRO`Northern Europe	100.0000
Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	100.0000
France`FRA`Western Europe	100.0000
French Polynesia`PYF`Polynesia	100.0000
Germany`DEU`Western Europe	100.0000
Gibraltar`GIB`Southern Europe	100.0000
Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	100.0000
Greenland`GRL`Northern America	100.0000
Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	100.0000
Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	100.0000
Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	100.0000
Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	100.0000
Isle of Man`IMN`Northern Europe	100.0000
Israel`ISR`Western Asia	100.0000
Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	100.0000
Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	100.0000
Kosovo`XKX`Southern Europe	100.0000
Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	100.0000
Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	100.0000
Liechtenstein`LIE`Western Europe	100.0000
Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	100.0000
Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	100.0000
Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	100.0000
Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	100.0000
Monaco`MCO`Western Europe	100.0000
Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	100.0000
Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	100.0000
New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	100.0000
North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	100.0000
Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	100.0000
Oman`OMN`Western Asia	100.0000
Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	100.0000
Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	100.0000
Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	100.0000
Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	100.0000
Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	100.0000
Saint Martin`MAF`Caribbean	100.0000
San Marino`SMR`Southern Europe	100.0000
Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	100.0000
Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	100.0000
Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	100.0000
Sint Maarten`SXM`Caribbean	100.0000
Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	100.0000
Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	100.0000
Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	100.0000
Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	100.0000
Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	100.0000
Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	100.0000
United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	100.0000
United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	100.0000
United States`USA`Northern America	100.0000
United States Virgin Islands`VIR`Caribbean	100.0000
Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	99.9934
Puerto Rico`PRI`Caribbean	99.9931
Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	99.9674
South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	99.9127
Northern Mariana Islands`MNP`Micronesia	99.8844
Macau`MAC`Eastern Asia	99.8806
Cayman Islands`CYM`Caribbean	99.8788
Guam`GUM`Micronesia	99.8758
New Caledonia`NCL`Melanesia	99.8758
Aruba`ABW`Caribbean	99.1537
Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	99.0707
Nauru`NRU`Micronesia	99.0413
Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	97.8547
Palau`PLW`Micronesia	96.7627
Antigua and Barbuda`ATG`Caribbean	95.9407
British Virgin Islands`VGB`Caribbean	94.8247
Chile`CHL`South America	94.7816
Argentina`ARG`South America	92.4922
Colombia`COL`South America	91.8367
Saint Kitts and Nevis`KNA`Caribbean	91.6712
Turks and Caicos Islands`TCA`Caribbean	91.0539
Brazil`BRA`South America	90.6065
Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	78.8000
Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	78.2000
Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	77.2289
Panama`PAN`Central America	73.4431
El Salvador`SLV`Central America	69.6079
Belize`BLZ`Central America	67.0000
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines`VCT`Caribbean	66.8000
Honduras`HND`Central America	54.7819
Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	48.9000
Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	35.2346
Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	29.0000
Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	26.9193
Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	14.2900
Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	12.7527
Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	10.1000
Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	5.6000

02In 1991

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

Albaniashared100.0000
Andorrashared100.0000
United Arab Emiratesshared100.0000
Australiashared100.0000
Austriashared100.0000

Lowest

Uganda5.6000
Botswana10.1000
Zambia12.7527
Bangladesh14.2900
Sudan26.9193

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 100.0000. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031990 → 1991

Since 1990

What changed between 1990 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+11 / −0countries joined / left
27values changed, of 98 in both
24 · 3rose · fell
71unchanged

Rose most

Nigeria27.3000 → 35.2346+7.9346
Jamaica70.3346 → 77.2289+6.8943
Panama70.1900 → 73.4431+3.2531
Brazil87.4751 → 90.6065+3.1314
Chile92.2574 → 94.7816+2.5242

Fell most

Sudan32.8000 → 26.9193−5.8807
Zambia13.9000 → 12.7527−1.1473
Aruba100.0000 → 99.1537−0.8463

+ Bangladesh

+ Belize

+ Botswana

+ Cameroon

+ Dominican Republic

+ Honduras

+ Indonesia

+ El Salvador

+ Uganda

+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

+ Samoa

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

One year of the 2026 release
Every year in this series comes from World Bank Group’s 2026 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1991.
38 distinct values among 109
Values are stored exactly as published, to 13 decimals. 71 countries share 100.0000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 109 countries has every column.

05The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

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Cite this edition

World Bank Group (1991). Access to Electricity, 1991 [data set], describing 1991. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/electricity-access/1991

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