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Lesotho - Electricity Access 2018

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Access to electricity as % of population · World Bank

47.00% +13.30pp from 2017 Global rank: 189th

Lesotho's electricity access was 47.00% in 2018, increased +13.30pp from 33.70% in 2017. This was the 189th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2018▾

Electricity Access by Country - 2018
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Aruba	100.00%	0.0%
2nd	Albania	100.00%	0.1%
3rd	Andorra	100.00%	0.0%
4th	United Arab Emirates	100.00%	0.0%
5th	Argentina	100.00%	0.0%
6th	Antigua and Barbuda	100.00%	0.0%
7th	Australia	100.00%	0.0%
8th	Austria	100.00%	0.0%
9th	Azerbaijan	100.00%	0.0%
10th	Belgium	100.00%	0.0%
11th	Bahrain	100.00%	0.0%
12th	Bahamas, The	100.00%	0.0%
13th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	100.00%	0.0%
14th	Bermuda	100.00%	0.0%
15th	Barbados	100.00%	0.0%
16th	Brunei Darussalam	100.00%	0.0%
17th	Bhutan	100.00%	2.4%
18th	Canada	100.00%	0.0%
19th	Switzerland	100.00%	0.0%
20th	Channel Islands	100.00%	0.0%
21st	Chile	100.00%	0.3%
22nd	China	100.00%	0.0%
23rd	Curaçao	100.00%	0.0%
24th	Cayman Islands	100.00%	0.0%
25th	Cyprus	100.00%	0.0%
26th	Czechia	100.00%	0.0%
27th	Germany	100.00%	0.0%
28th	Denmark	100.00%	0.0%
29th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	100.00%	0.0%
30th	Spain	100.00%	0.0%
31st	Estonia	100.00%	0.0%
32nd	Finland	100.00%	0.0%
33rd	France	100.00%	0.0%
34th	Faroe Islands	100.00%	0.0%
35th	United Kingdom	100.00%	0.0%
36th	Gibraltar	100.00%	0.0%
37th	Greece	100.00%	0.0%
38th	Greenland	100.00%	0.0%
39th	Guam	100.00%	0.0%
40th	Hong Kong SAR, China	100.00%	0.0%
41st	Croatia	100.00%	0.0%
42nd	Hungary	100.00%	0.0%
43rd	Isle of Man	100.00%	0.0%
44th	Ireland	100.00%	0.0%
45th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	100.00%	0.1%
46th	Iceland	100.00%	0.0%
47th	Israel	100.00%	0.0%
48th	Italy	100.00%	0.0%
49th	Japan	100.00%	0.0%
50th	Kazakhstan	100.00%	0.0%
51st	Kyrgyz Republic	100.00%	0.0%
52nd	St. Kitts and Nevis	100.00%	0.0%
53rd	Korea	100.00%	0.0%
54th	Kuwait	100.00%	0.0%
55th	St. Lucia	100.00%	0.1%
56th	Liechtenstein	100.00%	0.0%
57th	Lithuania	100.00%	0.0%
58th	Luxembourg	100.00%	0.0%
59th	Latvia	100.00%	0.0%
60th	Macao SAR, China	100.00%	0.0%
61st	St. Martin (French part)	100.00%	0.0%
62nd	Monaco	100.00%	0.0%
63rd	Moldova	100.00%	0.0%
64th	Maldives	100.00%	0.2%
65th	Malta	100.00%	0.0%
66th	Montenegro	100.00%	0.0%
67th	Northern Mariana Islands	100.00%	0.0%
68th	Malaysia	100.00%	0.0%
69th	New Caledonia	100.00%	0.0%
70th	Netherlands	100.00%	0.0%
71st	Norway	100.00%	0.0%
72nd	New Zealand	100.00%	0.0%
73rd	Oman	100.00%	0.0%
74th	Palau	100.00%	0.0%
75th	Poland	100.00%	0.0%
76th	Puerto Rico (US)	100.00%	0.0%
77th	Portugal	100.00%	0.0%
78th	West Bank and Gaza	100.00%	0.1%
79th	French Polynesia	100.00%	0.0%
80th	Qatar	100.00%	0.0%
81st	Russian Federation	100.00%	0.0%
82nd	Singapore	100.00%	0.0%
83rd	San Marino	100.00%	0.0%
84th	Serbia	100.00%	0.0%
85th	Slovak Republic	100.00%	0.0%
86th	Slovenia	100.00%	0.0%
87th	Sweden	100.00%	0.0%
88th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	100.00%	0.0%
89th	Seychelles	100.00%	0.0%
90th	Turks and Caicos Islands	100.00%	0.0%
91st	Turkmenistan	100.00%	0.0%
92nd	Trinidad and Tobago	100.00%	0.0%
93rd	Türkiye	100.00%	0.0%
94th	Ukraine	100.00%	0.0%
95th	United States	100.00%	0.0%
96th	Uzbekistan	100.00%	0.0%
97th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	100.00%	0.0%
98th	British Virgin Islands	100.00%	0.0%
99th	Virgin Islands (US)	100.00%	0.0%
100th	Viet Nam	100.00%	0.0%
101st	European Union	99.97%	0.0%
102nd	Armenia	99.90%	0.2%
103rd	Georgia	99.90%	-0.1%
104th	Iraq	99.90%	0.0%
105th	Jordan	99.90%	-0.1%
106th	Nauru	99.90%	0.1%
107th	Saudi Arabia	99.90%	-0.1%
108th	North Macedonia	99.80%	-0.2%
109th	Mauritius	99.80%	0.2%
110th	Romania	99.80%	-0.2%
111th	Thailand	99.80%	-0.1%
112th	Tunisia	99.80%	-0.2%
113th	Uruguay	99.80%	0.0%
114th	Samoa	99.80%	3.1%
115th	Brazil	99.70%	-0.1%
116th	Costa Rica	99.70%	0.1%
117th	Lebanon	99.70%	-0.2%
118th	Cuba	99.60%	0.2%
119th	Dominica	99.60%	0.7%
120th	Algeria	99.60%	0.1%
121st	Sri Lanka	99.60%	2.2%
122nd	Paraguay	99.60%	0.3%
123rd	Mexico	99.50%	-0.5%
124th	Belarus	99.30%	0.6%
125th	Tajikistan	99.30%	0.0%
126th	Tonga	99.00%	0.8%
127th	Tuvalu	99.00%	0.3%
128th	Dominican Republic	98.90%	-1.1%
129th	Bulgaria	98.70%	0.6%
130th	Ecuador	98.70%	-0.5%
131st	Colombia	98.50%	0.0%
132nd	Indonesia	98.50%	0.4%
133rd	Jamaica	98.20%	0.8%
134th	Morocco	98.10%	-1.9%
135th	Mongolia	98.10%	4.8%
136th	Suriname	97.40%	0.8%
137th	El Salvador	97.00%	0.2%
138th	India	95.70%	4.2%
139th	Marshall Islands	95.30%	1.6%
140th	Peru	95.20%	0.4%
141st	Fiji	95.10%	-0.9%
142nd	Guatemala	94.20%	1.0%
143rd	Philippines	94.20%	1.3%
144th	Nepal	93.90%	8.4%
145th	Panama	93.80%	0.1%
146th	Afghanistan	93.40%	-4.4%
147th	Pakistan	93.40%	0.8%
148th	Lao PDR	92.90%	-0.7%
149th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	92.80%	1.1%
150th	Grenada	92.30%	0.1%
151st	Belize	91.70%	-2.7%
152nd	Honduras	91.60%	5.9%
153rd	Guyana	90.90%	1.0%
154th	Cabo Verde	90.20%	1.8%
155th	Gabon	89.60%	3.8%
156th	Kiribati	87.50%	2.1%
157th	Bangladesh	86.90%	-1.2%
158th	Syrian Arab Republic	86.00%	-4.0%
159th	Nicaragua	85.20%	0.7%
160th	Timor-Leste	85.20%	7.2%
161st	South Africa	84.70%	0.4%
162nd	Comoros	81.00%	2.9%
163rd	Cambodia	80.70%	-9.4%
164th	Ghana	80.40%	1.8%
165th	Micronesia, Federated States of	78.30%	2.4%
166th	Eswatini	74.00%	0.7%
167th	São Tomé and Principe	71.00%	-4.4%
168th	Botswana	68.30%	1.3%
169th	Côte d'Ivoire	67.10%	2.3%
170th	Libya	67.00%	-5.1%
171st	Equatorial Guinea	66.50%	0.2%
172nd	Myanmar	66.10%	-5.3%
173rd	Senegal	66.00%	7.0%
174th	Solomon Islands	65.80%	4.6%
175th	Djibouti	62.40%	3.7%
176th	Cameroon	62.20%	2.1%
177th	Yemen, Republic of	62.00%	-21.7%
178th	Vanuatu	61.60%	-1.9%
179th	Kenya	61.20%	9.7%
180th	Gambia, The	60.30%	7.3%
181st	Nigeria	56.50%	3.9%
182nd	Sudan	55.30%	4.3%
183rd	Namibia	52.30%	-0.4%
184th	Mali	50.90%	46.3%
185th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	50.70%	-2.7%
186th	Togo	50.00%	4.2%
187th	Eritrea	49.10%	2.3%
188th	Congo, Republic of	47.00%	1.7%
189th	Lesotho	47.00%	39.5%
190th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	46.30%	4.8%
191st	Zimbabwe	45.40%	3.2%
192nd	Angola	45.30%	5.6%
193rd	Guinea	45.00%	27.1%
194th	Haiti	44.40%	2.5%
195th	Mauritania	43.60%	1.6%
196th	Uganda	41.90%	29.3%
197th	Zambia	40.20%	-0.2%
198th	Benin	39.00%	13.0%
199th	Rwanda	38.00%	11.4%
200th	Madagascar	36.50%	51.5%
201st	Tanzania	34.90%	8.7%
202nd	Mozambique	31.10%	28.0%
203rd	Guinea-Bissau	28.40%	9.2%
204th	Sierra Leone	26.10%	11.5%
205th	Liberia	22.80%	-5.8%
206th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	18.70%	3.9%
207th	Malawi	18.00%	41.7%
208th	Niger	17.60%	0.0%
209th	Papua New Guinea	16.60%	-13.5%
210th	Central African Republic	14.60%	3.5%
211th	Burkina Faso	14.40%	-15.3%
212th	Chad	10.10%	-7.3%
213th	Burundi	9.50%	2.2%
214th	South Sudan	6.30%	50.0%

FAQ

What was Lesotho's electricity access in 2018?▾

Lesotho's electricity access in 2018 was 47.00%. This ranked 189th globally.

How did Lesotho's electricity access change in 2018?▾

Lesotho's electricity access increased by 39.5% in 2018 compared to 2017.

Which country had the highest electricity access in 2018?▾

Aruba had the highest electricity access in 2018 at 100.00%.

What is the electricity access of Lesotho in 2018?▾

The electricity access of Lesotho in 2018 was 47.00%. This ranked 189th globally.

How does 2018 compare to 2017 for Lesotho's electricity access?▾

Lesotho's electricity access went from 33.70% in 2017 to 47.00% in 2018, a 39.5% increase.

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