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Papua New Guinea - Electricity Access 2019

Name: Papua New Guinea Electricity Access 2019
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Access to electricity as % of population · World Bank

23.60% +7.00pp from 2018 Global rank: 204th

Papua New Guinea's electricity access was 23.60% in 2019, increased +7.00pp from 16.60% in 2018. This was the 204th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2019▾

Electricity Access by Country - 2019
Rank	Country	Value	YoY
1st	Aruba	100.00%	0.0%
2nd	Albania	100.00%	0.0%
3rd	Andorra	100.00%	0.0%
4th	United Arab Emirates	100.00%	0.0%
5th	Argentina	100.00%	0.0%
6th	Armenia	100.00%	0.1%
7th	Antigua and Barbuda	100.00%	0.0%
8th	Australia	100.00%	0.0%
9th	Austria	100.00%	0.0%
10th	Azerbaijan	100.00%	0.0%
11th	Belgium	100.00%	0.0%
12th	Bahrain	100.00%	0.0%
13th	Bahamas, The	100.00%	0.0%
14th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	100.00%	0.0%
15th	Belarus	100.00%	0.7%
16th	Bermuda	100.00%	0.0%
17th	Barbados	100.00%	0.0%
18th	Brunei Darussalam	100.00%	0.0%
19th	Bhutan	100.00%	0.0%
20th	Canada	100.00%	0.0%
21st	Switzerland	100.00%	0.0%
22nd	Channel Islands	100.00%	0.0%
23rd	Chile	100.00%	0.0%
24th	China	100.00%	0.0%
25th	Curaçao	100.00%	0.0%
26th	Cayman Islands	100.00%	0.0%
27th	Cyprus	100.00%	0.0%
28th	Czechia	100.00%	0.0%
29th	Germany	100.00%	0.0%
30th	Denmark	100.00%	0.0%
31st	Egypt, Arab Republic of	100.00%	0.0%
32nd	Spain	100.00%	0.0%
33rd	Estonia	100.00%	0.0%
34th	Finland	100.00%	0.0%
35th	France	100.00%	0.0%
36th	Faroe Islands	100.00%	0.0%
37th	United Kingdom	100.00%	0.0%
38th	Georgia	100.00%	0.1%
39th	Gibraltar	100.00%	0.0%
40th	Greece	100.00%	0.0%
41st	Greenland	100.00%	0.0%
42nd	Guam	100.00%	0.0%
43rd	Hong Kong SAR, China	100.00%	0.0%
44th	Croatia	100.00%	0.0%
45th	Hungary	100.00%	0.0%
46th	Isle of Man	100.00%	0.0%
47th	Ireland	100.00%	0.0%
48th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	100.00%	0.0%
49th	Iraq	100.00%	0.1%
50th	Iceland	100.00%	0.0%
51st	Israel	100.00%	0.0%
52nd	Italy	100.00%	0.0%
53rd	Japan	100.00%	0.0%
54th	Kazakhstan	100.00%	0.0%
55th	St. Kitts and Nevis	100.00%	0.0%
56th	Korea	100.00%	0.0%
57th	Kuwait	100.00%	0.0%
58th	Lebanon	100.00%	0.3%
59th	St. Lucia	100.00%	0.0%
60th	Liechtenstein	100.00%	0.0%
61st	Lithuania	100.00%	0.0%
62nd	Luxembourg	100.00%	0.0%
63rd	Latvia	100.00%	0.0%
64th	Macao SAR, China	100.00%	0.0%
65th	St. Martin (French part)	100.00%	0.0%
66th	Monaco	100.00%	0.0%
67th	Moldova	100.00%	0.0%
68th	Maldives	100.00%	0.0%
69th	North Macedonia	100.00%	0.2%
70th	Malta	100.00%	0.0%
71st	Montenegro	100.00%	0.0%
72nd	Northern Mariana Islands	100.00%	0.0%
73rd	Mauritius	100.00%	0.2%
74th	Malaysia	100.00%	0.0%
75th	New Caledonia	100.00%	0.0%
76th	Netherlands	100.00%	0.0%
77th	Norway	100.00%	0.0%
78th	Nauru	100.00%	0.1%
79th	New Zealand	100.00%	0.0%
80th	Oman	100.00%	0.0%
81st	Palau	100.00%	0.0%
82nd	Poland	100.00%	0.0%
83rd	Puerto Rico (US)	100.00%	0.0%
84th	Portugal	100.00%	0.0%
85th	West Bank and Gaza	100.00%	0.0%
86th	French Polynesia	100.00%	0.0%
87th	Qatar	100.00%	0.0%
88th	Romania	100.00%	0.2%
89th	Saudi Arabia	100.00%	0.1%
90th	Singapore	100.00%	0.0%
91st	San Marino	100.00%	0.0%
92nd	Slovak Republic	100.00%	0.0%
93rd	Slovenia	100.00%	0.0%
94th	Sweden	100.00%	0.0%
95th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	100.00%	0.0%
96th	Seychelles	100.00%	0.0%
97th	Turks and Caicos Islands	100.00%	0.0%
98th	Trinidad and Tobago	100.00%	0.0%
99th	Tunisia	100.00%	0.2%
100th	Türkiye	100.00%	0.0%
101st	Ukraine	100.00%	0.0%
102nd	United States	100.00%	0.0%
103rd	Uzbekistan	100.00%	0.0%
104th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	100.00%	0.0%
105th	British Virgin Islands	100.00%	0.0%
106th	Virgin Islands (US)	100.00%	0.0%
107th	European Union	99.99%	0.0%
108th	Dominica	99.90%	0.3%
109th	Jordan	99.90%	0.0%
110th	Kyrgyz Republic	99.90%	-0.1%
111th	Thailand	99.90%	0.1%
112th	Turkmenistan	99.90%	-0.1%
113th	Uruguay	99.90%	0.1%
114th	Brazil	99.80%	0.1%
115th	Cuba	99.80%	0.2%
116th	Sri Lanka	99.80%	0.2%
117th	Russian Federation	99.80%	-0.2%
118th	Serbia	99.80%	-0.2%
119th	Costa Rica	99.70%	0.0%
120th	Paraguay	99.70%	0.1%
121st	Tuvalu	99.70%	0.7%
122nd	Morocco	99.60%	1.5%
123rd	Mexico	99.60%	0.1%
124th	Algeria	99.50%	-0.1%
125th	Colombia	99.40%	0.9%
126th	Tajikistan	99.40%	0.1%
127th	Viet Nam	99.40%	-0.6%
128th	Bulgaria	99.20%	0.5%
129th	Samoa	99.20%	-0.6%
130th	Ecuador	99.10%	0.4%
131st	Dominican Republic	99.00%	0.1%
132nd	Indonesia	98.90%	0.4%
133rd	Jamaica	98.90%	0.7%
134th	Mongolia	98.90%	0.8%
135th	Lao PDR	98.40%	5.9%
136th	Tonga	98.40%	-0.6%
137th	Suriname	97.90%	0.5%
138th	Afghanistan	97.70%	4.6%
139th	El Salvador	97.40%	0.4%
140th	Marshall Islands	96.80%	1.6%
141st	Fiji	96.10%	1.1%
142nd	India	95.90%	0.2%
143rd	Peru	95.60%	0.4%
144th	Guatemala	95.40%	1.3%
145th	Philippines	95.30%	1.2%
146th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	95.10%	2.5%
147th	Pakistan	93.90%	0.5%
148th	Panama	93.90%	0.1%
149th	Grenada	93.00%	0.8%
150th	Belize	92.70%	1.1%
151st	Bangladesh	92.20%	6.1%
152nd	Guyana	91.60%	0.8%
153rd	Cabo Verde	91.40%	1.3%
154th	Honduras	91.10%	-0.5%
155th	Timor-Leste	90.60%	6.3%
156th	Gabon	90.30%	0.8%
157th	Nepal	89.90%	-4.3%
158th	Kiribati	89.30%	2.1%
159th	Syrian Arab Republic	89.20%	3.7%
160th	Nicaragua	85.70%	0.6%
161st	South Africa	85.00%	0.4%
162nd	Cambodia	84.00%	4.1%
163rd	Ghana	83.50%	3.9%
164th	Comoros	83.30%	2.8%
165th	Micronesia, Federated States of	80.10%	2.3%
166th	Eswatini	77.00%	4.1%
167th	São Tomé and Principe	75.10%	5.8%
168th	Yemen, Republic of	72.80%	17.4%
169th	Senegal	70.40%	6.7%
170th	Botswana	70.10%	2.6%
171st	Kenya	69.70%	13.9%
172nd	Solomon Islands	69.40%	5.5%
173rd	Côte d'Ivoire	68.60%	2.2%
174th	Libya	68.50%	2.2%
175th	Myanmar	68.30%	3.3%
176th	Equatorial Guinea	66.60%	0.2%
177th	Djibouti	64.70%	3.7%
178th	Vanuatu	64.50%	4.7%
179th	Cameroon	63.20%	1.6%
180th	Gambia, The	62.10%	3.0%
181st	Sudan	57.60%	4.2%
182nd	Nigeria	55.40%	-1.9%
183rd	Namibia	53.30%	1.9%
184th	Togo	52.50%	5.0%
185th	Eritrea	50.30%	2.4%
186th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	49.20%	-3.0%
187th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	48.40%	4.5%
188th	Mali	47.90%	-5.9%
189th	Congo, Republic of	47.70%	1.5%
190th	Zimbabwe	46.70%	2.9%
191st	Rwanda	46.60%	22.6%
192nd	Angola	45.60%	0.7%
193rd	Haiti	45.40%	2.3%
194th	Mauritania	44.90%	3.0%
195th	Lesotho	44.60%	-5.1%
196th	Zambia	43.00%	7.0%
197th	Guinea	42.20%	-6.2%
198th	Uganda	41.30%	-1.4%
199th	Benin	40.00%	2.6%
200th	Tanzania	37.70%	8.0%
201st	Madagascar	31.00%	-15.1%
202nd	Guinea-Bissau	30.90%	8.8%
203rd	Mozambique	29.70%	-4.5%
204th	Papua New Guinea	23.60%	42.2%
205th	Liberia	23.10%	1.3%
206th	Sierra Leone	22.70%	-13.0%
207th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	19.10%	2.1%
208th	Niger	18.50%	5.1%
209th	Burkina Faso	17.60%	22.2%
210th	Central African Republic	14.30%	-2.1%
211th	Malawi	11.20%	-37.8%
212th	Burundi	9.80%	3.2%
213th	Chad	8.40%	-16.8%
214th	South Sudan	6.80%	7.9%

FAQ

What was Papua New Guinea's electricity access in 2019?▾

Papua New Guinea's electricity access in 2019 was 23.60%. This ranked 204th globally.

How did Papua New Guinea's electricity access change in 2019?▾

Papua New Guinea's electricity access increased by 42.2% in 2019 compared to 2018.

Which country had the highest electricity access in 2019?▾

Aruba had the highest electricity access in 2019 at 100.00%.

What is the electricity access of Papua New Guinea in 2019?▾

The electricity access of Papua New Guinea in 2019 was 23.60%. This ranked 204th globally.

How does 2019 compare to 2018 for Papua New Guinea's electricity access?▾

Papua New Guinea's electricity access went from 16.60% in 2018 to 23.60% in 2019, a 42.2% increase.

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