Data for 1999

Access to Electricity, 1999

Name: Access to Electricity, 1999
Creator: World Bank Group
License: https://data.worldbank.org/summary-terms-of-use

1999, as World Bank Group’s 2026 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Access to Electricity, 1999 covers 172 countries. 81 countries share the highest reading, 100.00; Burundi is lowest, at 2.07. The middle country reads 99.07. Against 1998, 85 values changed (74 up, 11 down), 6 countries joined.

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Access to Electricity · Data for 1999

Highest81 countries share it

100.00

LowestBurundi

2.07

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

172countries
1measure
1999the year it describes
90distinct values14 decimals, as published
Sep 6, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY 4.0licence

01Values only

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Every country and every column of Access to Electricity, 1999, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

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Access to Electricity, 1999: every country, as published by World Bank Group.

Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	100.00
Andorra`AND`Southern Europe	100.00
Aruba`ABW`Caribbean	100.00
Australia`AUS`Australia and New Zealand	100.00
Austria`AUT`Western Europe	100.00
Bahamas`BHS`Caribbean	100.00
Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	100.00
Barbados`BRB`Caribbean	100.00
Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	100.00
Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	100.00
Bermuda`BMU`Northern America	100.00
Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	100.00
Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	100.00
Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	100.00
Canada`CAN`Northern America	100.00
Cayman Islands`CYM`Caribbean	100.00
Channel Islands`CHI`Northern Europe	100.00
Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	100.00
Curaçao`CUW`Caribbean	100.00
Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	100.00
Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	100.00
Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	100.00
Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	100.00
Faroe Islands`FRO`Northern Europe	100.00
Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	100.00
France`FRA`Western Europe	100.00
French Polynesia`PYF`Polynesia	100.00
Germany`DEU`Western Europe	100.00
Gibraltar`GIB`Southern Europe	100.00
Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	100.00
Greenland`GRL`Northern America	100.00
Guam`GUM`Micronesia	100.00
Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	100.00
Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	100.00
Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	100.00
Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	100.00
Isle of Man`IMN`Northern Europe	100.00
Israel`ISR`Western Asia	100.00
Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	100.00
Japan`JPN`Eastern Asia	100.00
Kosovo`XKX`Southern Europe	100.00
Kuwait`KWT`Western Asia	100.00
Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	100.00
Liechtenstein`LIE`Western Europe	100.00
Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	100.00
Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	100.00
Macau`MAC`Eastern Asia	100.00
Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	100.00
Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	100.00
Monaco`MCO`Western Europe	100.00
Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	100.00
Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	100.00
New Caledonia`NCL`Melanesia	100.00
New Zealand`NZL`Australia and New Zealand	100.00
North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	100.00
Northern Mariana Islands`MNP`Micronesia	100.00
Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	100.00
Oman`OMN`Western Asia	100.00
Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	100.00
Portugal`PRT`Southern Europe	100.00
Puerto Rico`PRI`Caribbean	100.00
Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	100.00
Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	100.00
Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	100.00
Saint Martin`MAF`Caribbean	100.00
San Marino`SMR`Southern Europe	100.00
Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	100.00
Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	100.00
Singapore`SGP`South-eastern Asia	100.00
Sint Maarten`SXM`Caribbean	100.00
Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	100.00
Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	100.00
South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	100.00
Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	100.00
Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	100.00
Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	100.00
Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	100.00
United Arab Emirates`ARE`Western Asia	100.00
United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	100.00
United States`USA`Northern America	100.00
United States Virgin Islands`VIR`Caribbean	100.00
Suriname`SUR`South America	99.62
Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	99.57
Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	99.51
Nauru`NRU`Micronesia	99.32
Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	99.25
Venezuela`VEN`South America	98.90
Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	98.76
Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	98.62
Palau`PLW`Micronesia	97.80
Uruguay`URY`South America	97.40
Antigua and Barbuda`ATG`Caribbean	97.30
Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	97.00
Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	97.00
Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	97.00
Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	96.89
Mexico`MEX`Central America	96.75
Chile`CHL`South America	96.70
British Virgin Islands`VGB`Caribbean	96.51
Argentina`ARG`South America	95.13
Brazil`BRA`South America	94.76
Saint Kitts and Nevis`KNA`Caribbean	94.53
Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	94.20
Colombia`COL`South America	94.15
Turks and Caicos Islands`TCA`Caribbean	94.08
Seychelles`SYC`Eastern Africa	93.67
Ecuador`ECU`South America	93.07
Dominican Republic`DOM`Caribbean	91.00
Paraguay`PRY`South America	88.52
Samoa`WSM`Polynesia	87.08
Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	86.99
Grenada`GRD`Caribbean	85.53
Tonga`TON`Polynesia	84.83
Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	84.55
Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	83.73
Panama`PAN`Central America	79.89
Dominica`DMA`Caribbean	79.62
El Salvador`SLV`Central America	79.13
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines`VCT`Caribbean	78.51
Belize`BLZ`Central America	78.46
Fiji`FJI`Melanesia	74.40
Peru`PER`South America	74.08
Guyana`GUY`South America	73.87
Nicaragua`NIC`Central America	72.20
Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	71.87
South Africa`ZAF`Southern Africa	71.33
Bolivia`BOL`South America	70.93
Guatemala`GTM`Central America	70.90
Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	70.27
Marshall Islands`MHL`Micronesia	68.52
Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	67.75
Honduras`HND`Central America	67.39
India`IND`Southern Asia	60.10
Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	56.35
Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	48.20
Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	47.99
Nigeria`NGA`Western Africa	44.90
Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	40.74
Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	40.71
Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	39.68
Zimbabwe`ZWE`Eastern Africa	38.40
Comoros`COM`Eastern Africa	37.42
Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	36.20
Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	34.00
Haiti`HTI`Caribbean	31.63
Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	30.78
Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	29.54
Eritrea`ERI`Eastern Africa	28.10
Gambia`GMB`Western Africa	26.57
Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	25.33
Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	25.05
Benin`BEN`Western Africa	20.56
Vanuatu`VUT`Melanesia	19.10
Zambia`ZMB`Eastern Africa	18.54
Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	16.40
Togo`TGO`Western Africa	16.07
Solomon Islands`SLB`Melanesia	15.70
Kenya`KEN`Eastern Africa	13.21
Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	12.80
Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	8.82
Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	8.00
Mali`MLI`Western Africa	7.84
Niger`NER`Western Africa	7.33
Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	6.90
Papua New Guinea`PNG`Melanesia	6.43
Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	6.20
Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	4.88
Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	4.81
Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	4.27
Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	3.32
Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	2.81
Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	2.07

02In 1999

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

Arubashared100.00
Albaniashared100.00
Andorrashared100.00
United Arab Emiratesshared100.00
Australiashared100.00

Lowest

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 99.07. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

What changed between 1998 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+6 / −0countries joined / left
85values changed, of 166 in both
74 · 11rose · fell
81unchanged

Rose most

South Africa64.90 → 71.33+6.43
Zimbabwe33.10 → 38.40+5.30
Dominica75.00 → 79.62+4.62
Dominican Republic87.07 → 91.00+3.93
India56.18 → 60.10+3.92

Fell most

Cambodia18.67 → 8.82−9.85
El Salvador81.64 → 79.13−2.51
Kazakhstan99.34 → 97.00−2.34
Ghana42.60 → 40.74−1.86
Burundi3.90 → 2.07−1.83

+ Azerbaijan

+ Guinea

+ Marshall Islands

+ Solomon Islands

+ Suriname

+ Tajikistan

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

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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 1999.
90 distinct values among 172
Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 81 countries share 100.00. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
Nothing missing
Every one of the 172 countries has every column.

05The files

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World Bank Group (1999). Access to Electricity, 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/electricity-access/1999

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