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Liberia - Electricity Access 2008

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Access to electricity as % of population · World Bank

1.30% −1.70pp from 2007 Global rank: 212th

Liberia's electricity access was 1.30% in 2008, decreased +1.70pp from 3.00% in 2007. This was the 212th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2008▾

Electricity Access by Country - 2008
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Aruba	100.00%	0.0%
2nd	Albania	100.00%	0.6%
3rd	Andorra	100.00%	0.0%
4th	United Arab Emirates	100.00%	0.0%
5th	Antigua and Barbuda	100.00%	0.0%
6th	Australia	100.00%	0.0%
7th	Austria	100.00%	0.0%
8th	Belgium	100.00%	0.0%
9th	Bahrain	100.00%	0.0%
10th	Bahamas, The	100.00%	0.0%
11th	Bermuda	100.00%	0.0%
12th	Barbados	100.00%	0.0%
13th	Brunei Darussalam	100.00%	0.0%
14th	Canada	100.00%	0.0%
15th	Switzerland	100.00%	0.0%
16th	Channel Islands	100.00%	0.0%
17th	Cayman Islands	100.00%	0.0%
18th	Cyprus	100.00%	0.0%
19th	Czechia	100.00%	0.0%
20th	Germany	100.00%	0.0%
21st	Denmark	100.00%	0.0%
22nd	Spain	100.00%	0.0%
23rd	Estonia	100.00%	0.0%
24th	Finland	100.00%	0.0%
25th	France	100.00%	0.0%
26th	Faroe Islands	100.00%	0.0%
27th	United Kingdom	100.00%	0.0%
28th	Georgia	100.00%	0.0%
29th	Greece	100.00%	0.0%
30th	Greenland	100.00%	0.0%
31st	Guam	100.00%	0.0%
32nd	Hong Kong SAR, China	100.00%	0.0%
33rd	Croatia	100.00%	0.2%
34th	Hungary	100.00%	0.0%
35th	Isle of Man	100.00%	0.0%
36th	Ireland	100.00%	0.0%
37th	Iceland	100.00%	0.0%
38th	Israel	100.00%	0.0%
39th	Italy	100.00%	0.0%
40th	Jordan	100.00%	1.2%
41st	Japan	100.00%	0.0%
42nd	Kazakhstan	100.00%	0.0%
43rd	Korea	100.00%	0.0%
44th	Kuwait	100.00%	0.0%
45th	Liechtenstein	100.00%	0.0%
46th	Luxembourg	100.00%	0.0%
47th	Macao SAR, China	100.00%	0.0%
48th	Monaco	100.00%	0.0%
49th	Malta	100.00%	0.0%
50th	Northern Mariana Islands	100.00%	0.0%
51st	New Caledonia	100.00%	0.0%
52nd	Netherlands	100.00%	0.0%
53rd	Norway	100.00%	0.0%
54th	New Zealand	100.00%	0.0%
55th	Oman	100.00%	0.0%
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	Trinidad and Tobago	100.00%	0.0%
67th	United States	100.00%	0.0%
68th	Virgin Islands (US)	100.00%	0.0%
69th	Lebanon	99.90%	2.1%
70th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	99.80%	1.4%
71st	Poland	99.80%	0.0%
72nd	West Bank and Gaza	99.80%	1.0%
73rd	Ukraine	99.80%	0.0%
74th	Azerbaijan	99.70%	0.2%
75th	Curaçao	99.70%	0.0%
76th	Gibraltar	99.70%	0.0%
77th	Latvia	99.70%	0.0%
78th	St. Martin (French part)	99.70%	0.0%
79th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	99.70%	0.0%
80th	Türkiye	99.70%	0.0%
81st	European Union	99.68%	0.0%
82nd	Serbia	99.60%	0.0%
83rd	Turkmenistan	99.60%	0.0%
84th	Kyrgyz Republic	99.50%	0.0%
85th	Uzbekistan	99.50%	0.0%
86th	Lithuania	99.40%	0.0%
87th	Tunisia	99.40%	0.0%
88th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	99.30%	-0.4%
89th	Costa Rica	99.30%	0.1%
90th	Algeria	99.30%	0.6%
91st	Armenia	99.20%	0.0%
92nd	North Macedonia	99.20%	0.1%
93rd	Moldova	99.10%	0.1%
94th	Nauru	99.10%	-0.7%
95th	Montenegro	99.00%	0.0%
96th	Mauritius	99.00%	0.0%
97th	Malaysia	99.00%	0.1%
98th	Mexico	98.90%	1.0%
99th	China	98.80%	0.3%
100th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	98.80%	0.1%
101st	Uruguay	98.80%	0.1%
102nd	Tajikistan	98.60%	0.0%
103rd	Brazil	98.50%	0.4%
104th	Palau	98.50%	0.1%
105th	Russian Federation	98.30%	0.1%
106th	Chile	98.20%	0.2%
107th	British Virgin Islands	98.10%	0.2%
108th	Samoa	98.10%	6.1%
109th	Iraq	97.90%	-0.2%
110th	Dominican Republic	97.60%	0.7%
111th	Argentina	97.50%	0.3%
112th	Cuba	97.30%	0.2%
113th	St. Kitts and Nevis	97.30%	0.3%
114th	Ecuador	97.20%	0.4%
115th	Turks and Caicos Islands	96.90%	0.3%
116th	Colombia	96.80%	0.8%
117th	Paraguay	96.70%	0.2%
118th	Romania	96.50%	0.4%
119th	Seychelles	96.50%	0.4%
120th	Tuvalu	96.20%	-0.5%
121st	Thailand	94.80%	0.7%
122nd	Suriname	94.70%	0.0%
123rd	Viet Nam	93.80%	0.8%
124th	Maldives	93.60%	1.1%
125th	Belarus	93.20%	0.6%
126th	Indonesia	92.70%	1.8%
127th	St. Lucia	92.70%	1.0%
128th	Bulgaria	92.30%	0.7%
129th	Jamaica	92.00%	2.9%
130th	Syrian Arab Republic	91.30%	-0.2%
131st	Tonga	91.20%	0.8%
132nd	El Salvador	91.00%	-0.1%
133rd	Dominica	90.90%	3.2%
134th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	90.10%	1.5%
135th	Grenada	90.00%	2.0%
136th	Panama	86.30%	0.9%
137th	Fiji	86.20%	-3.0%
138th	Belize	86.10%	1.1%
139th	Libya	85.10%	-2.0%
140th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	84.70%	5.6%
141st	Peru	84.70%	3.3%
142nd	Morocco	84.10%	2.3%
143rd	Philippines	83.30%	1.6%
144th	Sri Lanka	82.90%	3.6%
145th	Gabon	82.00%	0.9%
146th	Guatemala	81.90%	1.5%
147th	South Africa	81.90%	-0.1%
148th	Pakistan	81.40%	1.5%
149th	Marshall Islands	80.20%	10.9%
150th	Mongolia	79.20%	1.4%
151st	Guyana	79.10%	0.8%
152nd	Nicaragua	77.50%	0.8%
153rd	Honduras	76.40%	3.9%
154th	India	74.10%	2.5%
155th	Cabo Verde	72.30%	2.6%
156th	Kiribati	69.40%	2.5%
157th	Bhutan	67.60%	-5.8%
158th	Lao PDR	66.00%	20.0%
159th	Equatorial Guinea	65.20%	0.2%
160th	Micronesia, Federated States of	60.50%	3.1%
161st	Ghana	60.50%	6.3%
162nd	Côte d'Ivoire	60.30%	9.0%
163rd	São Tomé and Principe	59.10%	1.9%
164th	Yemen, Republic of	58.40%	2.1%
165th	Comoros	57.80%	4.1%
166th	Djibouti	57.40%	0.3%
167th	Nepal	56.00%	6.5%
168th	Bangladesh	54.30%	16.8%
169th	Cameroon	50.60%	5.0%
170th	Myanmar	50.60%	2.2%
171st	Nigeria	50.30%	0.4%
172nd	Senegal	49.70%	3.3%
173rd	Botswana	44.50%	6.2%
174th	Timor-Leste	43.10%	17.8%
175th	Eswatini	42.60%	7.0%
176th	Afghanistan	42.40%	10.4%
177th	Namibia	42.40%	-3.0%
178th	Gambia, The	41.50%	4.3%
179th	Angola	38.50%	2.7%
180th	Eritrea	37.80%	3.0%
181st	Zimbabwe	37.70%	1.3%
182nd	Congo, Republic of	36.80%	2.8%
183rd	Vanuatu	36.50%	8.6%
184th	Haiti	36.10%	1.7%
185th	Togo	31.80%	6.0%
186th	Kenya	30.30%	7.1%
187th	Mauritania	30.00%	-9.1%
188th	Benin	29.00%	3.6%
189th	Solomon Islands	28.10%	117.8%
190th	Cambodia	26.40%	30.7%
191st	Zambia	25.70%	38.9%
192nd	Guinea	25.40%	5.4%
193rd	Mali	23.40%	7.8%
194th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	22.90%	13.4%
195th	Sudan	20.00%	-35.7%
196th	Madagascar	18.30%	4.6%
197th	Lesotho	16.00%	15.1%
198th	Uganda	15.90%	7.4%
199th	Papua New Guinea	15.30%	2.7%
200th	Mozambique	13.60%	9.7%
201st	Burkina Faso	12.50%	4.2%
202nd	Sierra Leone	12.10%	-6.9%
203rd	Niger	11.80%	5.4%
204th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	11.60%	-23.7%
205th	Tanzania	11.50%	-27.7%
206th	Guinea-Bissau	9.30%	17.7%
207th	Malawi	7.80%	5.4%
208th	Central African Republic	7.50%	-10.7%
209th	Rwanda	6.00%	-53.1%
210th	Chad	5.90%	7.3%
211th	Burundi	4.80%	2.1%
212th	Liberia	1.30%	-56.7%
213th	South Sudan	1.30%	62.5%

FAQ

What was Liberia's electricity access in 2008?▾

Liberia's electricity access in 2008 was 1.30%. This ranked 212th globally.

How did Liberia's electricity access change in 2008?▾

Liberia's electricity access decreased by 56.7% in 2008 compared to 2007.

Which country had the highest electricity access in 2008?▾

Aruba had the highest electricity access in 2008 at 100.00%.

What is the electricity access of Liberia in 2008?▾

The electricity access of Liberia in 2008 was 1.30%. This ranked 212th globally.

How does 2008 compare to 2007 for Liberia's electricity access?▾

Liberia's electricity access went from 3.00% in 2007 to 1.30% in 2008, a 56.7% decrease.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Liberia matched the Fiscal Dominance Trap pattern in 2008. Historically: 386 occurrences, 278 successful (72%). Outcome 24 months later: 7.3%. View full analysis →

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