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Libya - Electricity Access 2016

Name: Libya Electricity Access 2016
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Access to electricity as % of population · World Bank

72.20% −1.60pp from 2015 Global rank: 165th

Libya's electricity access was 72.20% in 2016, decreased +1.60pp from 73.80% in 2015. This was the 165th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2016▾

Electricity Access by Country - 2016
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	Antigua and Barbuda	100.00%	0.0%
5th	Australia	100.00%	0.0%
6th	Austria	100.00%	0.0%
7th	Azerbaijan	100.00%	0.0%
8th	Belgium	100.00%	0.0%
9th	Bahrain	100.00%	0.0%
10th	Bahamas, The	100.00%	0.0%
11th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	100.00%	0.3%
12th	Bermuda	100.00%	0.0%
13th	Barbados	100.00%	0.0%
14th	Brunei Darussalam	100.00%	0.0%
15th	Canada	100.00%	0.0%
16th	Switzerland	100.00%	0.0%
17th	Channel Islands	100.00%	0.0%
18th	Chile	100.00%	0.3%
19th	China	100.00%	0.0%
20th	Curaçao	100.00%	0.0%
21st	Cayman Islands	100.00%	0.0%
22nd	Cyprus	100.00%	0.0%
23rd	Czechia	100.00%	0.0%
24th	Germany	100.00%	0.0%
25th	Denmark	100.00%	0.0%
26th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	100.00%	0.7%
27th	Spain	100.00%	0.0%
28th	Estonia	100.00%	0.0%
29th	Finland	100.00%	0.0%
30th	France	100.00%	0.0%
31st	Faroe Islands	100.00%	0.0%
32nd	United Kingdom	100.00%	0.0%
33rd	Georgia	100.00%	0.0%
34th	Gibraltar	100.00%	0.0%
35th	Greece	100.00%	0.0%
36th	Greenland	100.00%	0.0%
37th	Guam	100.00%	0.0%
38th	Hong Kong SAR, China	100.00%	0.0%
39th	Croatia	100.00%	0.0%
40th	Hungary	100.00%	0.0%
41st	Isle of Man	100.00%	0.0%
42nd	Ireland	100.00%	0.0%
43rd	Iran, Islamic Republic of	100.00%	0.0%
44th	Iceland	100.00%	0.0%
45th	Israel	100.00%	0.0%
46th	Italy	100.00%	0.0%
47th	Jordan	100.00%	0.1%
48th	Japan	100.00%	0.0%
49th	Kazakhstan	100.00%	0.0%
50th	St. Kitts and Nevis	100.00%	0.0%
51st	Korea	100.00%	0.0%
52nd	Kuwait	100.00%	0.0%
53rd	Liechtenstein	100.00%	0.0%
54th	Lithuania	100.00%	0.0%
55th	Luxembourg	100.00%	0.0%
56th	Latvia	100.00%	0.0%
57th	Macao SAR, China	100.00%	0.0%
58th	St. Martin (French part)	100.00%	0.0%
59th	Monaco	100.00%	0.0%
60th	Maldives	100.00%	0.2%
61st	North Macedonia	100.00%	0.1%
62nd	Malta	100.00%	0.0%
63rd	Northern Mariana Islands	100.00%	0.0%
64th	New Caledonia	100.00%	0.0%
65th	Netherlands	100.00%	0.0%
66th	Norway	100.00%	0.0%
67th	New Zealand	100.00%	0.0%
68th	Oman	100.00%	0.0%
69th	Palau	100.00%	0.5%
70th	Poland	100.00%	0.0%
71st	Puerto Rico (US)	100.00%	0.0%
72nd	Portugal	100.00%	0.0%
73rd	West Bank and Gaza	100.00%	0.1%
74th	French Polynesia	100.00%	0.0%
75th	Qatar	100.00%	0.0%
76th	Singapore	100.00%	0.0%
77th	San Marino	100.00%	0.0%
78th	Slovak Republic	100.00%	0.0%
79th	Slovenia	100.00%	0.0%
80th	Sweden	100.00%	0.0%
81st	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	100.00%	0.0%
82nd	Seychelles	100.00%	0.0%
83rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	100.00%	0.0%
84th	Turkmenistan	100.00%	0.0%
85th	Trinidad and Tobago	100.00%	0.0%
86th	Tunisia	100.00%	0.1%
87th	Türkiye	100.00%	0.0%
88th	Ukraine	100.00%	0.0%
89th	United States	100.00%	0.0%
90th	British Virgin Islands	100.00%	0.0%
91st	Virgin Islands (US)	100.00%	0.0%
92nd	European Union	99.92%	0.0%
93rd	Albania	99.90%	-0.1%
94th	Argentina	99.90%	0.2%
95th	Moldova	99.90%	0.0%
96th	Malaysia	99.90%	0.0%
97th	Saudi Arabia	99.90%	-0.1%
98th	Serbia	99.90%	0.0%
99th	Thailand	99.90%	0.3%
100th	Uzbekistan	99.90%	0.0%
101st	Armenia	99.80%	-0.2%
102nd	Lebanon	99.80%	0.1%
103rd	St. Lucia	99.80%	0.8%
104th	Brazil	99.70%	0.0%
105th	Iraq	99.70%	0.3%
106th	Kyrgyz Republic	99.70%	1.0%
107th	Mauritius	99.70%	0.1%
108th	Nauru	99.70%	0.7%
109th	Uruguay	99.70%	0.0%
110th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	99.70%	0.3%
111th	Montenegro	99.60%	0.1%
112th	Costa Rica	99.50%	0.1%
113th	Mexico	99.50%	0.5%
114th	Algeria	99.40%	0.0%
115th	Russian Federation	99.40%	4.1%
116th	Bhutan	99.30%	4.1%
117th	Tajikistan	99.30%	1.3%
118th	Cuba	99.20%	0.2%
119th	Viet Nam	99.20%	-0.1%
120th	Romania	99.10%	0.3%
121st	Dominican Republic	98.90%	0.3%
122nd	Samoa	98.90%	0.7%
123rd	Ecuador	98.70%	-0.1%
124th	Colombia	98.40%	0.2%
125th	Paraguay	98.40%	-0.9%
126th	Belarus	98.00%	0.6%
127th	Dominica	97.80%	1.1%
128th	Morocco	97.80%	0.5%
129th	Afghanistan	97.70%	36.6%
130th	Indonesia	97.60%	0.1%
131st	Sri Lanka	97.50%	3.4%
132nd	Bulgaria	97.30%	0.7%
133rd	Tuvalu	97.30%	-0.8%
134th	Tonga	97.00%	-3.0%
135th	Jamaica	96.60%	1.8%
136th	El Salvador	96.00%	0.6%
137th	Suriname	95.80%	0.8%
138th	Peru	94.20%	0.3%
139th	Fiji	93.40%	0.2%
140th	Belize	93.30%	1.6%
141st	Marshall Islands	92.70%	0.7%
142nd	Kiribati	92.60%	2.2%
143rd	Panama	92.40%	0.9%
144th	Philippines	92.00%	3.3%
145th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	91.80%	0.3%
146th	Grenada	91.80%	0.4%
147th	Guatemala	91.80%	1.4%
148th	Pakistan	91.80%	0.9%
149th	Honduras	91.60%	1.8%
150th	Mongolia	90.80%	3.2%
151st	Nepal	90.70%	10.6%
152nd	Syrian Arab Republic	89.80%	-0.2%
153rd	India	89.60%	1.8%
154th	Guyana	89.00%	1.1%
155th	Lao PDR	89.00%	-0.8%
156th	Gabon	88.10%	0.9%
157th	Cabo Verde	87.50%	1.3%
158th	Nicaragua	83.90%	0.8%
159th	South Africa	83.90%	-1.6%
160th	Ghana	79.30%	7.2%
161st	Timor-Leste	76.50%	13.7%
162nd	Comoros	76.40%	3.1%
163rd	Bangladesh	75.90%	2.6%
164th	Micronesia, Federated States of	74.80%	2.5%
165th	Libya	72.20%	-2.2%
166th	São Tomé and Principe	69.40%	3.1%
167th	Yemen, Republic of	68.90%	2.2%
168th	Cambodia	68.80%	9.7%
169th	Equatorial Guinea	66.20%	0.2%
170th	Senegal	64.50%	6.6%
171st	Côte d'Ivoire	64.30%	2.7%
172nd	Botswana	64.20%	3.4%
173rd	Eswatini	63.40%	-1.1%
174th	Cameroon	59.80%	2.0%
175th	Djibouti	59.80%	1.2%
176th	Nigeria	59.30%	13.0%
177th	Solomon Islands	58.20%	5.6%
178th	Vanuatu	57.80%	10.5%
179th	Gambia, The	56.40%	3.1%
180th	Myanmar	55.60%	-8.1%
181st	Kenya	53.10%	27.6%
182nd	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	51.10%	-0.2%
183rd	Sudan	50.50%	5.2%
184th	Namibia	49.70%	-3.7%
185th	Eritrea	46.90%	2.4%
186th	Togo	46.80%	4.7%
187th	Congo, Republic of	45.30%	2.3%
188th	Zimbabwe	42.50%	26.1%
189th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	42.10%	5.3%
190th	Angola	41.80%	-0.5%
191st	Mauritania	41.20%	4.3%
192nd	Haiti	40.40%	-1.0%
193rd	Mali	38.80%	3.2%
194th	Benin	37.00%	25.0%
195th	Zambia	35.40%	13.8%
196th	Lesotho	35.10%	10.4%
197th	Guinea	33.50%	-4.0%
198th	Tanzania	32.80%	25.2%
199th	Rwanda	29.40%	28.9%
200th	Uganda	26.70%	44.3%
201st	Mozambique	26.20%	9.2%
202nd	Guinea-Bissau	22.90%	13.9%
203rd	Madagascar	22.90%	-3.8%
204th	Sierra Leone	20.30%	3.0%
205th	Liberia	17.70%	16.4%
206th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	17.30%	4.2%
207th	Niger	17.00%	2.4%
208th	Burkina Faso	16.60%	2.5%
209th	Papua New Guinea	13.50%	-26.6%
210th	Central African Republic	13.40%	5.5%
211th	Malawi	11.00%	1.9%
212th	Chad	9.20%	19.5%
213th	Burundi	8.50%	7.6%
214th	South Sudan	5.30%	10.4%

FAQ

What was Libya's electricity access in 2016?▾

Libya's electricity access in 2016 was 72.20%. This ranked 165th globally.

How did Libya's electricity access change in 2016?▾

Libya's electricity access decreased by 2.2% in 2016 compared to 2015.

Which country had the highest electricity access in 2016?▾

Aruba had the highest electricity access in 2016 at 100.00%.

What is the electricity access of Libya in 2016?▾

The electricity access of Libya in 2016 was 72.20%. This ranked 165th globally.

How does 2016 compare to 2015 for Libya's electricity access?▾

Libya's electricity access went from 73.80% in 2015 to 72.20% in 2016, a 2.2% decrease.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Libya matched the Stagflation Risk pattern in 2016. Historically: 307 occurrences, 117 successful (38%). Outcome 24 months later: 13.2%. View full analysis →

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