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Afghanistan - Electricity Access 2009

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Access to electricity as % of population · World Bank

48.30% +5.90pp from 2008 Global rank: 173rd

Afghanistan's electricity access was 48.30% in 2009, increased +5.90pp from 42.40% in 2008. This was the 173rd highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2009▾

Electricity Access by Country - 2009
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Aruba	100.00%	0.0%
2nd	Andorra	100.00%	0.0%
3rd	United Arab Emirates	100.00%	0.0%
4th	Australia	100.00%	0.0%
5th	Austria	100.00%	0.0%
6th	Belgium	100.00%	0.0%
7th	Bahrain	100.00%	0.0%
8th	Bahamas, The	100.00%	0.0%
9th	Bermuda	100.00%	0.0%
10th	Barbados	100.00%	0.0%
11th	Brunei Darussalam	100.00%	0.0%
12th	Canada	100.00%	0.0%
13th	Switzerland	100.00%	0.0%
14th	Channel Islands	100.00%	0.0%
15th	Cayman Islands	100.00%	0.0%
16th	Cyprus	100.00%	0.0%
17th	Czechia	100.00%	0.0%
18th	Germany	100.00%	0.0%
19th	Denmark	100.00%	0.0%
20th	Spain	100.00%	0.0%
21st	Estonia	100.00%	0.0%
22nd	Finland	100.00%	0.0%
23rd	France	100.00%	0.0%
24th	Faroe Islands	100.00%	0.0%
25th	United Kingdom	100.00%	0.0%
26th	Georgia	100.00%	0.0%
27th	Gibraltar	100.00%	0.3%
28th	Greece	100.00%	0.0%
29th	Greenland	100.00%	0.0%
30th	Guam	100.00%	0.0%
31st	Hong Kong SAR, China	100.00%	0.0%
32nd	Croatia	100.00%	0.0%
33rd	Hungary	100.00%	0.0%
34th	Isle of Man	100.00%	0.0%
35th	Ireland	100.00%	0.0%
36th	Iceland	100.00%	0.0%
37th	Israel	100.00%	0.0%
38th	Italy	100.00%	0.0%
39th	Japan	100.00%	0.0%
40th	Kazakhstan	100.00%	0.0%
41st	Korea	100.00%	0.0%
42nd	Kuwait	100.00%	0.0%
43rd	Liechtenstein	100.00%	0.0%
44th	Luxembourg	100.00%	0.0%
45th	Latvia	100.00%	0.3%
46th	Macao SAR, China	100.00%	0.0%
47th	Monaco	100.00%	0.0%
48th	Malta	100.00%	0.0%
49th	Northern Mariana Islands	100.00%	0.0%
50th	New Caledonia	100.00%	0.0%
51st	Netherlands	100.00%	0.0%
52nd	Norway	100.00%	0.0%
53rd	New Zealand	100.00%	0.0%
54th	Oman	100.00%	0.0%
55th	Poland	100.00%	0.2%
56th	Puerto Rico (US)	100.00%	0.0%
57th	Portugal	100.00%	0.0%
58th	French Polynesia	100.00%	0.0%
59th	Qatar	100.00%	0.0%
60th	Saudi Arabia	100.00%	0.0%
61st	Singapore	100.00%	0.0%
62nd	San Marino	100.00%	0.0%
63rd	Slovak Republic	100.00%	0.0%
64th	Slovenia	100.00%	0.0%
65th	Sweden	100.00%	0.0%
66th	Turks and Caicos Islands	100.00%	3.2%
67th	United States	100.00%	0.0%
68th	Virgin Islands (US)	100.00%	0.0%
69th	Azerbaijan	99.90%	0.2%
70th	Maldives	99.90%	6.7%
71st	West Bank and Gaza	99.90%	0.1%
72nd	Ukraine	99.90%	0.1%
73rd	European Union	99.73%	0.0%
74th	Curaçao	99.70%	0.0%
75th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	99.70%	0.9%
76th	St. Martin (French part)	99.70%	0.0%
77th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	99.70%	0.0%
78th	Turkmenistan	99.70%	0.1%
79th	Türkiye	99.70%	0.0%
80th	Albania	99.60%	-0.4%
81st	Chile	99.60%	1.4%
82nd	Serbia	99.60%	0.0%
83rd	Kyrgyz Republic	99.50%	0.0%
84th	Lithuania	99.50%	0.1%
85th	Tunisia	99.50%	0.1%
86th	Uzbekistan	99.50%	0.0%
87th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	99.40%	0.1%
88th	Costa Rica	99.40%	0.1%
89th	Jordan	99.40%	-0.6%
90th	Armenia	99.30%	0.1%
91st	Lebanon	99.30%	-0.6%
92nd	Malaysia	99.30%	0.3%
93rd	Moldova	99.20%	0.1%
94th	North Macedonia	99.20%	0.0%
95th	China	99.10%	0.3%
96th	Montenegro	99.10%	0.1%
97th	Nauru	99.10%	0.0%
98th	Uruguay	99.10%	0.3%
99th	Mauritius	99.00%	0.0%
100th	Thailand	99.00%	4.4%
101st	Tajikistan	99.00%	0.4%
102nd	Trinidad and Tobago	99.00%	-1.0%
103rd	Brazil	98.90%	0.4%
104th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	98.90%	-0.9%
105th	Algeria	98.80%	-0.5%
106th	Palau	98.60%	0.1%
107th	Antigua and Barbuda	98.50%	-1.5%
108th	Russian Federation	98.40%	0.1%
109th	Mexico	98.30%	-0.6%
110th	British Virgin Islands	98.30%	0.2%
111th	Iraq	98.10%	0.2%
112th	Dominican Republic	97.90%	0.3%
113th	Samoa	97.90%	-0.2%
114th	Argentina	97.80%	0.3%
115th	Cuba	97.60%	0.3%
116th	St. Kitts and Nevis	97.60%	0.3%
117th	Paraguay	96.90%	0.2%
118th	Romania	96.80%	0.3%
119th	Seychelles	96.80%	0.3%
120th	Ecuador	96.50%	-0.7%
121st	Tuvalu	96.50%	0.3%
122nd	Colombia	96.10%	-0.7%
123rd	Viet Nam	96.10%	2.5%
124th	Suriname	94.60%	-0.1%
125th	Belarus	93.80%	0.6%
126th	Indonesia	93.60%	1.0%
127th	St. Lucia	93.50%	0.9%
128th	Bulgaria	92.90%	0.7%
129th	Tonga	92.00%	0.9%
130th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	91.40%	1.4%
131st	El Salvador	91.10%	0.1%
132nd	Syrian Arab Republic	91.10%	-0.2%
133rd	Jamaica	91.00%	-1.1%
134th	Dominica	90.20%	-0.8%
135th	Grenada	89.00%	-1.1%
136th	Sri Lanka	87.10%	5.1%
137th	Panama	87.00%	0.8%
138th	Belize	86.90%	0.9%
139th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	86.80%	2.5%
140th	Peru	86.40%	2.0%
141st	Morocco	85.90%	2.1%
142nd	Fiji	85.60%	-0.7%
143rd	Philippines	84.30%	1.2%
144th	Libya	83.50%	-1.9%
145th	Guatemala	83.10%	1.5%
146th	Gabon	82.70%	0.9%
147th	South Africa	82.60%	0.9%
148th	Pakistan	82.50%	1.4%
149th	Marshall Islands	81.70%	1.9%
150th	Mongolia	80.30%	1.4%
151st	Honduras	78.30%	2.5%
152nd	Nicaragua	77.90%	0.5%
153rd	Guyana	77.60%	-1.9%
154th	India	75.00%	1.2%
155th	Cabo Verde	74.10%	2.5%
156th	Bhutan	71.50%	5.8%
157th	Lao PDR	67.40%	2.1%
158th	Equatorial Guinea	65.40%	0.3%
159th	Kiribati	64.20%	-7.5%
160th	Micronesia, Federated States of	62.20%	2.8%
161st	Ghana	61.10%	1.0%
162nd	Comoros	60.10%	4.0%
163rd	Yemen, Republic of	59.60%	2.1%
164th	Nepal	59.30%	5.9%
165th	Djibouti	57.60%	0.3%
166th	Côte d'Ivoire	57.30%	-5.0%
167th	Bangladesh	57.10%	5.2%
168th	São Tomé and Principe	56.90%	-3.7%
169th	Senegal	53.50%	7.6%
170th	Myanmar	51.80%	2.4%
171st	Cameroon	51.70%	2.2%
172nd	Nigeria	50.00%	-0.6%
173rd	Afghanistan	48.30%	13.9%
174th	Timor-Leste	46.30%	7.4%
175th	Namibia	44.10%	4.0%
176th	Botswana	43.40%	-2.5%
177th	Zimbabwe	43.40%	15.1%
178th	Gambia, The	43.20%	4.1%
179th	Eritrea	38.90%	2.9%
180th	Eswatini	38.60%	-9.4%
181st	Congo, Republic of	37.10%	0.8%
182nd	Haiti	36.60%	1.4%
183rd	Angola	33.80%	-12.2%
184th	Togo	33.70%	6.0%
185th	Vanuatu	33.30%	-8.8%
186th	Mauritania	31.10%	3.7%
187th	Benin	30.00%	3.4%
188th	Sudan	29.00%	45.0%
189th	Guinea	26.70%	5.1%
190th	Zambia	26.60%	3.5%
191st	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	26.00%	-
192nd	Cambodia	25.60%	-3.0%
193rd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	25.50%	11.4%
194th	Mali	24.00%	2.6%
195th	Kenya	23.00%	-24.1%
196th	Solomon Islands	21.20%	-24.6%
197th	Madagascar	17.40%	-4.9%
198th	Papua New Guinea	17.20%	12.4%
199th	Lesotho	17.00%	6.3%
200th	Rwanda	15.60%	160.0%
201st	Mozambique	15.00%	10.3%
202nd	Sierra Leone	14.60%	20.7%
203rd	Burkina Faso	12.60%	0.8%
204th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	12.30%	6.0%
205th	Niger	12.30%	4.2%
206th	Tanzania	11.20%	-2.6%
207th	Uganda	10.00%	-37.1%
208th	Central African Republic	9.40%	25.3%
209th	Malawi	8.30%	6.4%
210th	Chad	6.30%	6.8%
211th	Burundi	5.40%	12.5%
212th	Guinea-Bissau	4.70%	-49.5%
213th	South Sudan	3.00%	130.8%
214th	Liberia	1.90%	46.2%

FAQ

What was Afghanistan's electricity access in 2009?▾

Afghanistan's electricity access in 2009 was 48.30%. This ranked 173rd globally.

How did Afghanistan's electricity access change in 2009?▾

Afghanistan's electricity access increased by 13.9% in 2009 compared to 2008.

Which country had the highest electricity access in 2009?▾

Aruba had the highest electricity access in 2009 at 100.00%.

What is the electricity access of Afghanistan in 2009?▾

The electricity access of Afghanistan in 2009 was 48.30%. This ranked 173rd globally.

How does 2009 compare to 2008 for Afghanistan's electricity access?▾

Afghanistan's electricity access went from 42.40% in 2008 to 48.30% in 2009, a 13.9% increase.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Afghanistan matched the Export Boom Cycle pattern in 2009. Historically: 768 occurrences, 546 successful (71%). View full analysis →

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