Proportion of primary schools with access to electricity (%) by country
February 2026 Data Release
Countries reporting
133
Highest
100.0%
Andorra
Lowest
1.2%
Chad
Median
100.0%
Years covered
27
1999–2025
Data points
3,898
What the numbers show
Proportion of primary schools with access to electricity (%) is currently reported for 133 countries. The highest value is 100.0% in Andorra; the lowest is 1.2% in Chad.
The median across all reporting countries is 100.0%, and the mean is 88.9%.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 80.
Over the past decade 44 countries rose and 13 fell. The largest increase was in Nepal (up 1,162.8%), and the largest decrease in Chad (down 77.1%).
Proportion of primary schools with access to electricity (%) (primary): full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andorra | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | United Arab Emirates | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Armenia | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Australia | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Austria | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Azerbaijan | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Belgium | 100.0% | 2022 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Bahrain | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Belarus | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Barbados | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Brunei | 100.0% | 2020 | — | flat |
| 1 | Switzerland | 100.0% | 2024 | up 1.8% | flat |
| 1 | Cuba | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Cayman Islands | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Czechia | 100.0% | 2022 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Germany | 100.0% | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Dominica | 100.0% | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Denmark | 100.0% | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Spain | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Estonia | 100.0% | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Finland | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | France | 100.0% | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Georgia | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Gibraltar | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Grenada | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Hong Kong | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Hungary | 100.0% | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Iceland | 100.0% | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Israel | 100.0% | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Italy | 100.0% | 2016 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Jordan | 100.0% | 2024 | up 0.5% | flat |
| 1 | Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | South Korea | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Kuwait | 100.0% | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Lebanon | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Saint Lucia | 100.0% | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Lithuania | 100.0% | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Luxembourg | 100.0% | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Macao | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Monaco | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Maldives | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Mongolia | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Mauritius | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Malaysia | 100.0% | 2024 | up 0.0% | flat |
| 1 | Netherlands | 100.0% | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Norway | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Nauru | 100.0% | 2025 | up 50.0% | rising |
| 1 | New Zealand | 100.0% | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Oman | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Palau | 100.0% | 2024 | — | rising |
| 1 | Poland | 100.0% | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Portugal | 100.0% | 2021 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Palestine | 100.0% | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Qatar | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Saudi Arabia | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Singapore | 100.0% | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | San Marino | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Slovakia | 100.0% | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Slovenia | 100.0% | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Sweden | 100.0% | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Seychelles | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Turks and Caicos Islands | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Turkmenistan | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | East Timor | 100.0% | 2023 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Tonga | 100.0% | 2024 | — | rising |
| 1 | Turkey | 100.0% | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Tuvalu | 100.0% | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Uruguay | 100.0% | 2023 | up 3.4% | flat |
| 1 | Uzbekistan | 100.0% | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | British Virgin Islands | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | falling |
| 1 | Samoa | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Anguilla | 100.0% | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Cook Islands | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Montserrat | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Niue | 100.0% | 2025 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Tokelau | 100.0% | 2024 | unchanged | flat |
| 78 | Tunisia | 100.0% | 2023 | up 0.2% | flat |
| 79 | Thailand | 99.9% | 2025 | down 0.1% | flat |
| 80 | Algeria | 99.9% | 2025 | up 1.3% | flat |
| 81 | Sri Lanka | 99.8% | 2023 | up 6.3% | rising |
| 82 | Costa Rica | 99.4% | 2020 | up 15.0% | rising |
| 83 | Ukraine | 99.4% | 2024 | down 0.6% | flat |
| 84 | El Salvador | 99.4% | 2019 | up 5.0% | flat |
| 85 | China | 99.2% | 2024 | down 0.0% | flat |
| 86 | Bhutan | 99.2% | 2024 | up 13.6% | rising |
| 87 | Chile | 99.2% | 2024 | down 0.8% | flat |
| 88 | Eswatini | 98.8% | 2023 | up 2.9% | flat |
| 89 | Indonesia | 98.4% | 2025 | up 8.7% | rising |
| 90 | Brazil | 97.9% | 2024 | up 4.1% | rising |
| 91 | Philippines | 97.9% | 2024 | up 9.7% | rising |
| 92 | Jamaica | 97.8% | 2024 | up 4.1% | flat |
| 93 | Morocco | 97.8% | 2024 | up 5.0% | flat |
| 94 | Argentina | 97.7% | 2023 | up 3.0% | rising |
| 95 | Vietnam | 96.6% | 2024 | down 2.3% | flat |
| 96 | Fiji | 96.5% | 2024 | down 1.6% | flat |
| 97 | Bangladesh | 96.4% | 2024 | up 74.1% | rising |
| 98 | Mexico | 95.6% | 2025 | down 1.6% | flat |
| 99 | Ecuador | 93.2% | 2024 | down 5.7% | flat |
| 100 | Cape Verde | 91.5% | 2022 | up 28.0% | rising |
| 101 | Peru | 91.5% | 2024 | up 29.8% | rising |
| 102 | India | 91.5% | 2025 | up 93.0% | rising |
| 103 | Cambodia | 90.6% | 2024 | up 3.7% | rising |
| 104 | Namibia | 89.9% | 2024 | up 25.4% | rising |
| 105 | Kiribati | 87.6% | 2024 | — | rising |
| 106 | Colombia | 87.6% | 2022 | down 5.5% | falling |
| 107 | Syria | 86.9% | 2024 | — | rising |
| 108 | Marshall Islands | 85.9% | 2023 | up 58.3% | rising |
| 109 | Panama | 85.2% | 2024 | up 2.3% | flat |
| 110 | Nepal | 83.3% | 2025 | up 1,162.8% | volatile |
| 111 | Micronesia (country) | 81.9% | 2024 | up 131.7% | rising |
| 112 | Djibouti | 81.5% | 2023 | up 6.2% | flat |
| 113 | Rwanda | 80.5% | 2024 | up 112.8% | rising |
| 114 | Zimbabwe | 74.3% | 2024 | up 55.0% | rising |
| 115 | Tanzania | 68.0% | 2024 | up 473.1% | rising |
| 116 | Laos | 67.0% | 2025 | up 79.9% | rising |
| 117 | Cote d'Ivoire | 66.9% | 2024 | up 108.0% | rising |
| 118 | Gambia | 57.1% | 2025 | up 81.4% | rising |
| 119 | Senegal | 56.6% | 2024 | up 14.2% | rising |
| 120 | Mauritania | 39.1% | 2020 | — | rising |
| 121 | Ghana | 38.8% | 2021 | — | falling |
| 122 | Togo | 38.3% | 2024 | up 170.1% | rising |
| 123 | Cameroon | 35.7% | 2022 | up 83.3% | rising |
| 124 | Solomon Islands | 35.6% | 2023 | down 28.6% | falling |
| 125 | Malawi | 34.0% | 2023 | up 52.3% | rising |
| 126 | Benin | 33.7% | 2022 | down 17.5% | flat |
| 127 | Burkina Faso | 28.5% | 2024 | down 10.7% | rising |
| 128 | Liberia | 24.3% | 2022 | up 105.6% | rising |
| 129 | Sierra Leone | 16.8% | 2024 | up 300.3% | rising |
| 130 | Madagascar | 11.9% | 2024 | up 39.1% | rising |
| 131 | Burundi | 8.7% | 2019 | up 5.8% | rising |
| 132 | Niger | 7.5% | 2024 | up 95.3% | rising |
| 133 | Chad | 1.2% | 2024 | down 77.1% | falling |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- AIMS: Central Asia 100.0%
- ECE: Euro Area (e25) (unsdcode:98204) 100.0%
- ESCAP: North America (nam) (unsdcode:98425) 100.0%
- MDG: Caucasus and Central Asia 100.0%
- SDG: Central Asia 100.0%
- SDG: Northern America 100.0%
- UIS: Central Asia 100.0%
- UIS: North America and Western Europe 100.0%
- UNICEF: North America 100.0%
- WB: North America 100.0%
- WB: Euro Area 100.0%
- GPE: Europe & Central Asia Wb Fy24, December 2024 100.0%
- WB: Europe & Central Asia (excluding High Income) 99.9%
- ESCAP: North and Central Asia (nca) (unsdcode:98417) 99.9%
- ECE: Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (cis) (unsdcode:98202) 99.9%
- ECE: Cis (cwg) (unsdcode:98201) 99.9%
- ECE: Eurasian Economic Union (eaeu) (unsdcode:98206) 99.9%
- UNICEF: Europe and Central Asia Programme Countries 99.8%
- WB: Europe & Central Asia (ida & Ibrd) 99.8%
- UNICEF: Central and Eastern Europe/commonwealth of Independent States 99.8%
- UNICEF: Eastern Europe and Central Asia 99.8%
- ECE: All Countries (unsdcode:98200) 99.7%
- ALECSO: Gulf Countries 99.7%
- ESCWA: Gulf Cooperation Council (gcc) (unsdcode:98502) 99.7%
- UNICEF: Gulf Area 99.7%
- SDG: Europe and Northern America 99.7%
- SDG: Europe, Northern America, Australia and New Zealand 99.6%
- UNICEF: Europe and Central Asia 99.6%
- WB: Europe & Central Asia 99.6%
- ESCWA: Arab Non-conflict and Non-ldc Middle Income Countries (unsdcode:98507) 99.6%
- UNICEF: Western Europe 99.5%
- ESCAP: Europe (europe) (unsdcode:98423) 99.5%
- SDG: Europe 99.5%
- ECE: European Union (emu) (unsdcode:98203) 99.4%
- WB: European Union 99.4%
- MDG: Eastern Asia 99.0%
- ESCAP: Wb Upper Middle Income Economies (wb_upper_mid) (unsdcode:98437) 99.0%
- MDG: Developed Regions 99.0%
- WB: Post-demographic Dividend 98.9%
- MDG: Northern Africa 98.7%
About this data
February 2026 Data Release