World Bank Group · Firms Owning or Sharing a Generator
Firms with a generator by country
What share of firms own or share a generator?
Of the 172 countries compared in the 2026 edition, Kuwait had the lowest reading, 0.1575%, and Liberia had the highest reading, 90.5068%. In the middle country the figure was 24.1874%. 9 readings from before 2016 are listed but not compared.
Part ofEnergy
Firms with a generator · the 2026 edition
Context statistic
Lowest of 172Kuwait
0.1575%01the 2026 edition · values only
Who leads
The three countries at the lowest end of 172 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.
1Photo: Jack Versloot · CC BY 2.0, greyscale
2Photo: Khairul Nizam . · CC BY 2.0, greyscale
3Photo: Base64 and Derivative work by Globe-trotter · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
Highest in the 2026 edition
Liberia90.5068%
Papua New Guinea90.3133%
Chad86.7144%
Where a country sits says how it compares with the others measured, and nothing about why.
02Every measured country
Firms with a generator on a map
Each country is shaded by its value, in five groups holding the same number of countries. Hover a country for its value, or select it to open its profile. Below the map, each continent’s middle country.
Darker is a lower value — the better end.
- 47.5201–90.5068%
- 29.7550–46.2173%
- 19.8581–29.5139%
- 11.3367–19.2453%
- 0.1575–11.2076%
- Hatched: a reading from before 2016, listed but not compared (9)
- No reading in the 2026 edition
- Europe
13.0230%
the middle country, of 40 measured · 49 members
Poland3.9930%
Kosovo61.9623%Lowest and highest reading in Europe.
- Asia
18.6471%
the middle country, of 45 measured · 52 members
Kuwait0.1575%
Iraq77.2359%Lowest and highest reading in Asia.
- Americas
25.1623%
the middle country, of 28 measured · 48 members
Bolivia4.4238%
Antigua and Barbuda77.4742%Lowest and highest reading in Americas.
- Oceania
29.5139%
the middle country, of 9 measured · 21 members
Kiribati24.5133%Papua New Guinea90.3133%Lowest and highest reading in Oceania.
- Africa
45.7703%
the middle country, of 50 measured · 55 members
Morocco2.8104%Liberia90.5068%Lowest and highest reading in Africa.
- Every region
22 sub-regions, lowest middle country first
- Eastern Asia
8.6639%
the middle country, of 6 measured · 8 members
Hong Kong0.5006%
Taiwan20.8658%Lowest and highest reading in Eastern Asia.
- Western Europe
10.3092%
the middle country, of 7 measured · 9 members
Austria5.5017%
Netherlands13.0604%Lowest and highest reading in Western Europe.
- South-eastern Asia
13.6047%
the middle country, of 11 measured · 11 members
Singapore0.4456%
Myanmar52.3385%Lowest and highest reading in South-eastern Asia.
- Northern Europe
13.6348%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 13 members
Norway9.2667%
Lithuania27.2207%Lowest and highest reading in Northern Europe.
- Eastern Europe
14.5013%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 10 members
Poland3.9930%
Moldova29.4847%Lowest and highest reading in Eastern Europe.
- Southern Europe
15.1476%
the middle country, of 13 measured · 17 members
Spain4.6546%Kosovo61.9623%Lowest and highest reading in Southern Europe.
- Western Asia
15.4805%
the middle country, of 15 measured · 19 members
Kuwait0.1575%Iraq77.2359%Lowest and highest reading in Western Asia.
- Central America
20.7781%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 8 members
Panama4.6198%
Belize52.4104%Lowest and highest reading in Central America.
- Central Asia
20.9359%
the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members
Uzbekistan9.9451%
Kazakhstan37.1488%Lowest and highest reading in Central Asia.
- South America
23.4776%
the middle country, of 10 measured · 12 members
Bolivia4.4238%
Ecuador47.5201%Lowest and highest reading in South America.
- Southern Asia
26.6220%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 9 members
Maldives12.9377%
Afghanistan64.5080%Lowest and highest reading in Southern Asia.
- Caribbean
30.6163%
the middle country, of 8 measured · 24 members
Trinidad and Tobago11.0527%Antigua and Barbuda77.4742%Lowest and highest reading in Caribbean.
- Eastern Africa
39.8042%
the middle country, of 17 measured · 19 members
Somalia11.2076%
Djibouti65.7361%Lowest and highest reading in Eastern Africa.
- Southern Africa
44.0959%
the middle country, of 5 measured · 5 members
Eswatini22.3808%
South Africa63.2536%Lowest and highest reading in Southern Africa.
- Western Africa
47.1973%
the middle country, of 16 measured · 16 members
Cabo Verde28.6033%Liberia90.5068%Lowest and highest reading in Western Africa.
- Middle Africa
54.8243%
the middle country, of 9 measured · 9 members
Equatorial Guinea33.2841%Chad86.7144%Lowest and highest reading in Middle Africa.
- Australia and New Zealand
2 of 2 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, New Zealand.
Australia28.5184%
New Zealand29.5139%Lowest and highest reading in Australia and New Zealand.
- Melanesia
4 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu.
Vanuatu31.4317%Papua New Guinea90.3133%Lowest and highest reading in Melanesia.
- Micronesia
1 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Kiribati.
Kiribati24.5133%Lowest and highest reading in Micronesia.
- Northern Africa
3 of 6 measured — too few for a middle: Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia.
Morocco2.8104%
Egypt6.4601%Lowest and highest reading in Northern Africa.
- Northern America
2 of 4 measured — too few for a middle: Canada, United States.
United States20.5260%
Canada29.8667%Lowest and highest reading in Northern America.
- Polynesia
2 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Samoa, Tonga.
Samoa29.0610%
Tonga29.3143%Lowest and highest reading in Polynesia.
03The whole field at once
The spread
172 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 24.1874%; a quarter are above 41.3625%, and a quarter below 12.7977%. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.
04All 181 ever measured
Every country
In order, lowest value first. No rank or position is shown: too many countries share the same value for an order to mean anything. Where power cuts are frequent a generator is a necessity; where they are rare it is an insurance policy, and some firms in rich countries keep one anyway. So the gaps at the top of this table mean more than the gaps at the bottom. Readings come from different survey years — check the year beside each one.
Showing 25 of 181 countries
Values for the 2026 edition.
05In this edition
Firms with a generator in records
The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.
Highest reading
90.5068%
Firms owning or sharing a generator (%)
Lowest reading
0.1575%
Firms owning or sharing a generator (%)
06The measure
About firms with a generator
This is the share of private firms that own or share a generator, from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys. Firms buy generators when they cannot count on the grid, so it is a measure of how far businesses trust the power supply — asked of the people who pay for the outages.
What the number is: Firms owning or sharing a generator (%).
07Where it fits
Connections
Its part in the Country Index, the statistics whose values line up most closely with it across countries, and others on the same subject.
In the Country Index
Context, with no vote
This statistic is published in full under Energy, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.
Moves with
Where firms with a generator is higher, these tend to be higher too.
- Maternal Mortality RatioKeyMMEIG · 169 countries in commonρ 0.67
- Stillbirth RateUN IGME · 170 countries in commonρ 0.66
- Gender Inequality IndexUNDP Human Development Report Office · 160 countries in commonρ 0.65
Moves against
Where firms with a generator is higher, these tend to be lower.
- Historical GDP per Capita (Maddison)GGDC · 153 countries in commonρ −0.65
- Frontier Technology Readiness IndexUNCTAD · 160 countries in commonρ −0.65
- Access to ElectricityWorld Bank Group · 170 countries in commonρ −0.65
Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 307 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.
08Keep reading
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09Questions
Firms with a generator: questions and answers
Which country has the lowest firms with a generator?
Kuwait, at 0.1575%, among the 172 countries compared in the 2026 edition.
Which country has the highest firms with a generator?
Liberia, at 90.5068%, among the 172 countries compared in the 2026 edition.
How many countries does the Firms Owning or Sharing a Generator cover?
172 in the 2026 edition, and 181 at least once across all editions.
What is the world average firms with a generator?
This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 172 compared in the 2026 edition, the figure was 24.1874%.
Is this World Bank Group’s own ranking?
No ranking is shown. World Bank Group publishes values only, and too many countries share the same value for an ordering to mean anything, so none is derived.
How often is the Firms Owning or Sharing a Generator published?
This site holds one edition, describing 2026.
Where does the data come from, and can I download it?
From World Bank Group, under CC BY 4.0. World Bank Enterprise Surveys on Data360, read from the full-precision bulk file, one reading per country from its most recent survey. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.
10Method
Sources, method and citation
Source
Firms Owning or Sharing a Generator — World Bank Group
World Bank Enterprise Surveys on Data360, read from the full-precision bulk file, one reading per country from its most recent survey.
Newest edition
Report year 2026Data year not recorded
Cite the source as: World Bank. Enterprise Surveys. Washington, DC: World Bank Group.
Licence: CC BY 4.0, checked 2026-09-29.
How this page reads the numbers
- No rank or position is shown: World Bank Group publishes values only, and too many countries share the same value for an ordering to mean anything.
- Which end is better follows the publisher’s own reading of the measure.
- A country is named at an end only when it holds that value alone. Where several share it, the page says how many and names none first.
- The file gives each country’s most recent reading, so the rows are from different years. Readings from before 2016 are listed but left out of every comparison on this page.
- Values are stored exactly as published and trimmed only for display. “The middle country” is the median of the countries measured, not a world average.
The file itself, column by column — where it came from, what each column holds, and every edition as a CSV — is on its dataset page.
Photographs
The countries at the top of this statistic, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Kuwait — Jack Versloot, CC BY 2.0
- Singapore — Khairul Nizam ., CC BY 2.0
- Hong Kong — Base64 and Derivative work by Globe-trotter, CC BY-SA 3.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Firms with a generator by country: Firms Owning or Sharing a Generator, data from World Bank Group. https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/firms-with-generator