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Primary schools with electricity by country

What share of primary schools have access to electricity?

Of the 110 countries compared in 2024, 66 countries shared the highest reading, 100.000%, and Chad had the lowest reading, 1.246%. In the middle country the figure was 100.000%.

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Primary schools with electricity · 2024

Context statistic

66 countries share the highest value, 100.000% — no single country is named first.

012024 · values only

Who leads

The three countries at the highest end of 110 compared, the three at the other end, and the first on each continent.

Highest in 2024 · shared

66 countries share the highest reading, 100.000%

No single country is named first: picking one from a shared value would be a choice the data does not make.

Lowest in 2024

  1. Chad1.246%
  2. Niger7.524%
  3. Madagascar11.861%

Where a country sits says how it compares with the others measured, and nothing about why.

Highest on each continent

02Every measured country

Primary schools with electricity 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.

All regions

Darker is a higher value — the better end.

  • 1.246–85.220%
  • 86.895–99.903%
  • 100.000%
  • No reading in 2024 (63 measured in an earlier edition)
  • Americas

    100.000%

    the middle country, of 23 measured · 48 members

    13 share 100.000%

    Venezuela76.290%

    Highest and lowest reading in Americas.

  • Asia

    100.000%

    the middle country, of 33 measured · 52 members

    20 share 100.000%

    Pakistan41.265%

    Highest and lowest reading in Asia.

  • Europe

    100.000%

    the middle country, of 23 measured · 49 members

    22 share 100.000%

    Ukraine99.440%

    Highest and lowest reading in Europe.

  • Oceania

    100.000%

    the middle country, of 12 measured · 21 members

    9 share 100.000%

    Micronesia81.944%

    Highest and lowest reading in Oceania.

  • Africa

    57.790%

    the middle country, of 19 measured · 55 members

    2 share 100.000%

    Chad1.246%

    Highest and lowest reading in Africa.

21 sub-regions, highest middle country first
  • Caribbean

    100.000%

    the middle country, of 14 measured · 24 members

    13 share 100.000%

    Jamaica97.764%

    Highest and lowest reading in Caribbean.

  • Eastern Asia

    100.000%

    the middle country, of 5 measured · 8 members

    4 share 100.000%

    China99.211%

    Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Asia.

  • Northern Europe

    100.000%

    the middle country, of 8 measured · 13 members

    8 share 100.000%

    8 share 100.000%

    Highest and lowest reading in Northern Europe.

  • Polynesia

    100.000%

    the middle country, of 5 measured · 7 members

    5 share 100.000%

    5 share 100.000%

    Highest and lowest reading in Polynesia.

  • Southern Europe

    100.000%

    the middle country, of 5 measured · 17 members

    5 share 100.000%

    5 share 100.000%

    Highest and lowest reading in Southern Europe.

  • Western Asia

    100.000%

    the middle country, of 13 measured · 19 members

    12 share 100.000%

    Syria86.895%

    Highest and lowest reading in Western Asia.

  • Western Europe

    100.000%

    the middle country, of 6 measured · 9 members

    6 share 100.000%

    6 share 100.000%

    Highest and lowest reading in Western Europe.

  • South-eastern Asia

    97.894%

    the middle country, of 7 measured · 11 members

    Malaysia100.000%

    Laos64.572%

    Highest and lowest reading in South-eastern Asia.

  • Southern Asia

    92.840%

    the middle country, of 6 measured · 9 members

    Maldives100.000%

    Pakistan41.265%

    Highest and lowest reading in Southern Asia.

  • South America

    91.488%

    the middle country, of 7 measured · 12 members

    Chile99.157%

    Venezuela76.290%

    Highest and lowest reading in South America.

  • Eastern Africa

    71.165%

    the middle country, of 8 measured · 19 members

    2 share 100.000%

    Madagascar11.861%

    Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Africa.

  • Western Africa

    38.271%

    the middle country, of 7 measured · 16 members

    Côte d’Ivoire66.881%

    Niger7.524%

    Highest and lowest reading in Western Africa.

  • Australia and New Zealand

    2 of 2 measured — too few for a middle: Australia, New Zealand.

    2 share 100.000%

    2 share 100.000%

    Highest and lowest reading in Australia and New Zealand.

  • Central America

    2 of 8 measured — too few for a middle: Mexico, Panama.

    Mexico95.528%

    Panama85.220%

    Highest and lowest reading in Central America.

  • Central Asia

    2 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

    2 share 100.000%

    2 share 100.000%

    Highest and lowest reading in Central Asia.

  • Eastern Europe

    4 of 10 measured — too few for a middle: Belarus, Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine.

    3 share 100.000%

    Ukraine99.440%

    Highest and lowest reading in Eastern Europe.

  • Melanesia

    1 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Fiji.

    Fiji96.510%

    Highest and lowest reading in Melanesia.

  • Micronesia

    4 of 7 measured — too few for a middle: Kiribati, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau.

    2 share 100.000%

    Micronesia81.944%

    Highest and lowest reading in Micronesia.

  • Middle Africa

    1 of 9 measured — too few for a middle: Chad.

    Chad1.246%

    Highest and lowest reading in Middle Africa.

  • Northern Africa

    2 of 6 measured — too few for a middle: Algeria, Morocco.

    Algeria99.863%

    Morocco97.752%

    Highest and lowest reading in Northern Africa.

  • Southern Africa

    1 of 5 measured — too few for a middle: Namibia.

    Namibia89.889%

    Highest and lowest reading in Southern Africa.

03The whole field at once

The spread

110 countries, one dot each, on one scale — further right is a higher value. Half the countries are above 100.000%; a quarter are above 100.000%, and a quarter below 91.916%. The bar in each row marks that continent’s middle country.

20%40%60%80%100%Africa19 comparedSeychelles: 100.000%Mauritius: 100.000%Algeria: 99.863%Morocco: 97.752%Namibia: 89.889%Rwanda: 80.525%Zimbabwe: 74.283%Tanzania: 68.047%Côte d’Ivoire: 66.881%Zambia: 57.790%Senegal: 56.650%Gambia: 52.713%Comoros: 49.069%Togo: 38.271%Burkina Faso: 28.500%Sierra Leone: 16.832%Madagascar: 11.861%Niger: 7.524%Chad: 1.246%Chad 1.246%Mauritius 100.000%Americas23 comparedMontserrat: 100.000%Barbados: 100.000%British Virgin Islands: 100.000%Saint Kitts and Nevis: 100.000%Cayman Islands: 100.000%Cuba: 100.000%Grenada: 100.000%Anguilla: 100.000%Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 100.000%Turks and Caicos Islands: 100.000%Puerto Rico: 100.000%Aruba: 100.000%Trinidad and Tobago: 100.000%Chile: 99.157%Brazil: 97.928%Jamaica: 97.764%Mexico: 95.528%Ecuador: 93.200%Peru: 91.488%Panama: 85.220%Suriname: 76.842%Guyana: 76.629%Venezuela: 76.290%Venezuela 76.290% · Trinidad and Tobago 100.000%Asia33 comparedSouth Korea: 100.000%Türkiye: 100.000%Azerbaijan: 100.000%Georgia: 100.000%Hong Kong: 100.000%Israel: 100.000%Lebanon: 100.000%Macau: 100.000%Malaysia: 100.000%Mongolia: 100.000%Oman: 100.000%Qatar: 100.000%Bahrain: 100.000%Jordan: 100.000%Saudi Arabia: 100.000%Uzbekistan: 100.000%Armenia: 100.000%United Arab Emirates: 100.000%Maldives: 100.000%Turkmenistan: 100.000%Thailand: 99.903%China: 99.211%Bhutan: 99.206%Indonesia: 98.254%Philippines: 97.894%Vietnam: 96.600%Bangladesh: 96.400%Cambodia: 90.608%India: 89.281%Syria: 86.895%Laos: 64.572%Nepal: 59.813%Pakistan: 41.265%Pakistan 41.265%Turkmenistan 100.000%Europe23 comparedAustria: 100.000%Denmark: 100.000%Estonia: 100.000%Finland: 100.000%France: 100.000%Germany: 100.000%Hungary: 100.000%Iceland: 100.000%Netherlands: 100.000%Norway: 100.000%Slovenia: 100.000%Spain: 100.000%Sweden: 100.000%Andorra: 100.000%Belarus: 100.000%Monaco: 100.000%Slovakia: 100.000%Gibraltar: 100.000%Lithuania: 100.000%San Marino: 100.000%Switzerland: 100.000%Latvia: 100.000%Ukraine: 99.440%Ukraine 99.440% · Latvia 100.000%Oceania12 comparedAustralia: 100.000%Cook Islands: 100.000%New Zealand: 100.000%Samoa: 100.000%Tuvalu: 100.000%Niue: 100.000%Nauru: 100.000%Palau: 100.000%Tonga: 100.000%Fiji: 96.510%Kiribati: 87.629%Micronesia: 81.944%Micronesia 81.944% · Tonga 100.000%middle country 100.000%

04All 173 ever measured

Every country

In order, highest value first. No rank or position is shown: too many countries share the same value for an order to mean anything. Many countries report every primary school connected, so the top of the table is a long tie at 100% and no position is derived; the differences that matter are at the bottom. A few readings come from learning assessments and give the share of pupils whose school has electricity rather than the share of schools — the source column says which. Access says nothing about how reliable the supply is.

The raw table

Showing 25 of 173 countries

  1. AndorraSouthern Europe100.000%
  2. AnguillaCaribbean100.000%
  3. ArmeniaWestern Asia100.000%
  4. ArubaCaribbean100.000%
  5. AustraliaAustralia and New Zealand100.000%
  6. AustriaWestern Europe100.000%
  7. AzerbaijanWestern Asia100.000%
  8. BahrainWestern Asia100.000%
  9. BarbadosCaribbean100.000%
  10. BelarusEastern Europe100.000%
  11. British Virgin IslandsCaribbean100.000%
  12. Cayman IslandsCaribbean100.000%
  13. Cook IslandsPolynesia100.000%
  14. CubaCaribbean100.000%
  15. DenmarkNorthern Europe100.000%
  16. EstoniaNorthern Europe100.000%
  17. FinlandNorthern Europe100.000%
  18. FranceWestern Europe100.000%
  19. GeorgiaWestern Asia100.000%
  20. GermanyWestern Europe100.000%
  21. GibraltarSouthern Europe100.000%
  22. GrenadaCaribbean100.000%
  23. Hong KongEastern Asia100.000%
  24. HungaryEastern Europe100.000%
  25. IcelandNorthern Europe100.000%

Values for 2024. The change column compares 2024 with 2023 only; the sparkline covers the recent editions.

052013–2024 · 10 editions

Over time

Each point is one edition. Reporting only became widespread in 2016, so most lines are short.

40%60%80%100%201351 ctys2016111 ctys2017108 ctys2018112 ctys2019130 ctys2020118 ctys2021120 ctys2022122 ctys2023124 ctys2024110 ctysAmericasAsiaEuropeOceaniaAfrica2013: middle country 98.819% of 512016: middle country 100.000% of 1112017: middle country 100.000% of 1082018: middle country 100.000% of 1122019: middle country 100.000% of 1302020: middle country 100.000% of 1182021: middle country 100.000% of 1202022: middle country 100.000% of 1222023: middle country 100.000% of 1242024: middle country 100.000% of 110
  • the middle country
  • the middle half of countries
  • the middle of the 23 countries measured every time
  • each continent’s middle country
The same, year by year
YearCountriesMiddle countryMiddle halfMeasured every time
2024110100.000%91.916% – 100.000%100.000%
2023124100.000%88.301% – 100.000%100.000%
2022122100.000%87.118% – 100.000%100.000%
2021120100.000%82.447% – 100.000%100.000%
2020118100.000%85.475% – 100.000%100.000%
2019130100.000%82.734% – 100.000%100.000%
2018112100.000%93.738% – 100.000%100.000%
2017108100.000%84.596% – 100.000%100.000%
2016111100.000%80.460% – 100.000%100.000%
20135198.819%83.628% – 100.000%100.000%

062023 → 2024

Who rose and fell

The biggest changes in value between the two newest editions. Places are shown second, because they also move when other countries do.

Improved most

before → after
  1. Puerto Rico49.661% → 100.000%+50.339
  2. Nepal46.679% → 59.813%+13.134
  3. Panama72.742% → 85.220%+12.478
  4. Tuvalu90.000% → 100.000%+10.000
  5. Ecuador83.907% → 93.200%+9.293

Declined most

before → after
  1. Chad4.179% → 1.246%−2.933
  2. Burkina Faso31.150% → 28.500%−2.650
  3. Jamaica100.000% → 97.764%−2.236
  4. Pakistan42.367% → 41.265%−1.102
  5. Namibia90.981% → 89.889%−1.092

103 countries were measured in both 2023 and 2024. The field changed from 124 to 110 countries, so a place can move for reasons that have nothing to do with the country itself.

07Across every edition

Primary schools with electricity in records

The extremes of the statistic. A record reached by more than one country names none of them.

08The measure

About primary schools with electricity

This is the share of primary schools with access to electricity — part of SDG indicator 4.a.1 on the basic services a school has. It describes the building a child learns in: light to read by, power for equipment, and the possibility of anything digital.

What the number is: Primary schools with access to electricity (%).

09Where 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.

All statistics

In the Country Index

Context, with no vote

This statistic is published in full under Education & Knowledge and Energy, but does not help decide any Country Index standing.

Education & KnowledgeEnergyWhich statistics vote, and why

Moves with

Where primary schools with electricity is higher, these tend to be higher too.

Moves against

Where primary schools with electricity is higher, these tend to be lower.

Rank correlation (ρ, from −1 to 1) across countries, on each statistic’s newest edition, out of 246 statistics sharing at least 80 countries with this one. Two statistics that move together do not cause each other.

On the same subject

10Keep reading

Explore further

The countries at either end

More from UIS

11Questions

Primary schools with electricity: questions and answers

Which country has the highest primary schools with electricity?

66 countries share the highest reading, 100.000%, among the 110 compared in 2024, so no single country is named.

Which country has the lowest primary schools with electricity?

Chad, at 1.246%, among the 110 countries compared in 2024.

How many countries does the Primary Schools with Electricity cover?

110 in 2024, and 173 at least once across all editions. The number measured varies from 51 to 130 between editions.

What is the world average primary schools with electricity?

This site does not calculate a world average, which would depend on how countries are weighted. In the middle country of the 110 compared in 2024, the figure was 100.000%.

Is this UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)’s own ranking?

No ranking is shown. UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) 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 Primary Schools with Electricity published?

This site holds 10 editions, describing 2013 to 2024.

Where does the data come from, and can I download it?

From UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), under CC BY-SA 4.0. From the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (SCHBSP.1.WELEC), which collects it through its own education survey and the UNESCO-OECD-Eurostat data collection, with UIS's own footnote on every reading. Editions reporting fewer than 50 countries are not written. Every edition is on this site’s Datasets pages as a full table, and downloads as a CSV file with every value unrounded.

12Method

Sources, method and citation

Source

Primary Schools with Electricity — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

From the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (SCHBSP.1.WELEC), which collects it through its own education survey and the UNESCO-OECD-Eurostat data collection, with UIS's own footnote on every reading. Editions reporting fewer than 50 countries are not written.

Newest edition

Report year 2024Data year 2024

Cite the source as: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. UIS Data Browser. Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, checked 2026-10-03.

The full 2024 table, row for row

How this page reads the numbers

  • No rank or position is shown: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) 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.
  • 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.

Cite this page

Nations Inquiry (2026). Primary schools with electricity by country: Primary Schools with Electricity, data from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). https://nationsinquiry.com/statistics/school-electricity-primary

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