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Rwanda - Electricity Access 2020

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Access to electricity as % of population · World Bank

45.20% −1.40pp from 2019 Global rank: 195th

Rwanda's electricity access was 45.20% in 2020, decreased +1.40pp from 46.60% in 2019. This was the 195th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2020▾

Electricity Access by Country - 2020
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%	0.0%
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%	0.0%
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	Dominica	100.00%	0.1%
31st	Denmark	100.00%	0.0%
32nd	Dominican Republic	100.00%	1.0%
33rd	Egypt, Arab Republic of	100.00%	0.0%
34th	Spain	100.00%	0.0%
35th	Estonia	100.00%	0.0%
36th	Finland	100.00%	0.0%
37th	France	100.00%	0.0%
38th	Faroe Islands	100.00%	0.0%
39th	United Kingdom	100.00%	0.0%
40th	Georgia	100.00%	0.0%
41st	Gibraltar	100.00%	0.0%
42nd	Greece	100.00%	0.0%
43rd	Greenland	100.00%	0.0%
44th	Guam	100.00%	0.0%
45th	Hong Kong SAR, China	100.00%	0.0%
46th	Croatia	100.00%	0.0%
47th	Hungary	100.00%	0.0%
48th	Isle of Man	100.00%	0.0%
49th	Ireland	100.00%	0.0%
50th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	100.00%	0.0%
51st	Iraq	100.00%	0.0%
52nd	Iceland	100.00%	0.0%
53rd	Israel	100.00%	0.0%
54th	Italy	100.00%	0.0%
55th	Japan	100.00%	0.0%
56th	Kazakhstan	100.00%	0.0%
57th	St. Kitts and Nevis	100.00%	0.0%
58th	Korea	100.00%	0.0%
59th	Kuwait	100.00%	0.0%
60th	Lebanon	100.00%	0.0%
61st	St. Lucia	100.00%	0.0%
62nd	Liechtenstein	100.00%	0.0%
63rd	Sri Lanka	100.00%	0.2%
64th	Lithuania	100.00%	0.0%
65th	Luxembourg	100.00%	0.0%
66th	Latvia	100.00%	0.0%
67th	Macao SAR, China	100.00%	0.0%
68th	St. Martin (French part)	100.00%	0.0%
69th	Morocco	100.00%	0.4%
70th	Monaco	100.00%	0.0%
71st	Moldova	100.00%	0.0%
72nd	Maldives	100.00%	0.0%
73rd	North Macedonia	100.00%	0.0%
74th	Malta	100.00%	0.0%
75th	Northern Mariana Islands	100.00%	0.0%
76th	Malaysia	100.00%	0.0%
77th	New Caledonia	100.00%	0.0%
78th	Netherlands	100.00%	0.0%
79th	Norway	100.00%	0.0%
80th	Nauru	100.00%	0.0%
81st	New Zealand	100.00%	0.0%
82nd	Oman	100.00%	0.0%
83rd	Palau	100.00%	0.0%
84th	Poland	100.00%	0.0%
85th	Puerto Rico (US)	100.00%	0.0%
86th	Portugal	100.00%	0.0%
87th	West Bank and Gaza	100.00%	0.0%
88th	French Polynesia	100.00%	0.0%
89th	Qatar	100.00%	0.0%
90th	Romania	100.00%	0.0%
91st	Saudi Arabia	100.00%	0.0%
92nd	Singapore	100.00%	0.0%
93rd	San Marino	100.00%	0.0%
94th	Serbia	100.00%	0.2%
95th	Slovak Republic	100.00%	0.0%
96th	Slovenia	100.00%	0.0%
97th	Sweden	100.00%	0.0%
98th	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	100.00%	0.0%
99th	Seychelles	100.00%	0.0%
100th	Thailand	100.00%	0.1%
101st	Turkmenistan	100.00%	0.1%
102nd	Trinidad and Tobago	100.00%	0.0%
103rd	Türkiye	100.00%	0.0%
104th	Ukraine	100.00%	0.0%
105th	Uruguay	100.00%	0.1%
106th	United States	100.00%	0.0%
107th	Uzbekistan	100.00%	0.0%
108th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	100.00%	0.0%
109th	British Virgin Islands	100.00%	0.0%
110th	Virgin Islands (US)	100.00%	0.0%
111th	Samoa	100.00%	0.8%
112th	European Union	100.00%	0.0%
113th	Costa Rica	99.90%	0.2%
114th	Cuba	99.90%	0.1%
115th	Jordan	99.90%	0.0%
116th	Kyrgyz Republic	99.90%	0.0%
117th	Montenegro	99.90%	-0.1%
118th	Russian Federation	99.90%	0.1%
119th	Tonga	99.90%	1.5%
120th	Tunisia	99.90%	-0.1%
121st	Viet Nam	99.80%	0.4%
122nd	Bulgaria	99.70%	0.5%
123rd	Brazil	99.70%	-0.1%
124th	Colombia	99.70%	0.3%
125th	Algeria	99.70%	0.2%
126th	Jamaica	99.70%	0.8%
127th	Paraguay	99.70%	0.0%
128th	El Salvador	99.70%	2.4%
129th	Mongolia	99.50%	0.6%
130th	Mauritius	99.50%	-0.5%
131st	Tajikistan	99.50%	0.1%
132nd	Mexico	99.40%	-0.2%
133rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	99.40%	-0.6%
134th	Tuvalu	99.40%	-0.3%
135th	Lao PDR	99.30%	0.9%
136th	Ecuador	98.90%	-0.2%
137th	Suriname	98.40%	0.5%
138th	Marshall Islands	98.30%	1.5%
139th	Afghanistan	97.70%	0.0%
140th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	97.20%	2.2%
141st	Fiji	97.10%	1.0%
142nd	Indonesia	97.00%	-1.9%
143rd	Belize	96.80%	4.4%
144th	Guatemala	96.60%	1.3%
145th	India	96.50%	0.6%
146th	Philippines	96.40%	1.2%
147th	Bangladesh	96.20%	4.3%
148th	Peru	96.20%	0.6%
149th	Timor-Leste	96.00%	6.0%
150th	Panama	95.30%	1.5%
151st	Pakistan	94.50%	0.6%
152nd	Cabo Verde	93.70%	2.5%
153rd	Grenada	93.40%	0.4%
154th	Honduras	93.10%	2.2%
155th	Guyana	92.30%	0.8%
156th	Gabon	91.10%	0.9%
157th	Kiribati	91.00%	1.9%
158th	South Africa	90.00%	5.9%
159th	Nepal	89.90%	0.0%
160th	Syrian Arab Republic	89.00%	-0.2%
161st	Cambodia	86.40%	2.9%
162nd	Nicaragua	86.00%	0.4%
163rd	Comoros	85.60%	2.8%
164th	Ghana	85.40%	2.3%
165th	Micronesia, Federated States of	81.90%	2.2%
166th	Eswatini	80.00%	3.9%
167th	São Tomé and Principe	76.80%	2.3%
168th	Yemen, Republic of	73.90%	1.5%
169th	Solomon Islands	72.90%	5.0%
170th	Botswana	71.80%	2.4%
171st	Kenya	71.50%	2.6%
172nd	Myanmar	70.40%	3.1%
173rd	Côte d'Ivoire	69.90%	1.9%
174th	Libya	69.40%	1.3%
175th	Vanuatu	67.30%	4.3%
176th	Equatorial Guinea	66.70%	0.2%
177th	Djibouti	64.50%	-0.3%
178th	Cameroon	64.30%	1.7%
179th	Senegal	64.30%	-8.7%
180th	Gambia, The	62.20%	0.2%
181st	Sudan	59.70%	3.6%
182nd	Nigeria	55.40%	0.0%
183rd	Togo	54.10%	3.0%
184th	Zimbabwe	52.70%	12.8%
185th	Namibia	52.30%	-1.9%
186th	Eritrea	51.40%	2.2%
187th	Mali	50.60%	5.6%
188th	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	50.50%	4.3%
189th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	49.90%	1.4%
190th	Congo, Republic of	48.70%	2.1%
191st	Lesotho	47.50%	6.5%
192nd	Angola	47.00%	3.1%
193rd	Haiti	46.30%	2.0%
194th	Mauritania	45.40%	1.1%
195th	Rwanda	45.20%	-3.0%
196th	Guinea	44.70%	5.9%
197th	Zambia	44.60%	3.7%
198th	Uganda	42.10%	1.9%
199th	Benin	41.00%	2.5%
200th	Tanzania	39.90%	5.8%
201st	Guinea-Bissau	33.40%	8.1%
202nd	Madagascar	32.00%	3.2%
203rd	Mozambique	30.60%	3.0%
204th	Liberia	27.60%	19.5%
205th	Sierra Leone	26.30%	15.9%
206th	Papua New Guinea	20.50%	-13.1%
207th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	20.10%	5.2%
208th	Niger	18.70%	1.1%
209th	Burkina Faso	18.50%	5.1%
210th	Central African Republic	15.40%	7.7%
211th	Malawi	11.50%	2.7%
212th	Chad	10.90%	29.8%
213th	Burundi	9.10%	-7.1%
214th	South Sudan	7.30%	7.4%

FAQ

What was Rwanda's electricity access in 2020?▾

Rwanda's electricity access in 2020 was 45.20%. This ranked 195th globally.

How did Rwanda's electricity access change in 2020?▾

Rwanda's electricity access decreased by 3.0% in 2020 compared to 2019.

Which country had the highest electricity access in 2020?▾

Aruba had the highest electricity access in 2020 at 100.00%.

What is the electricity access of Rwanda in 2020?▾

The electricity access of Rwanda in 2020 was 45.20%. This ranked 195th globally.

How does 2020 compare to 2019 for Rwanda's electricity access?▾

Rwanda's electricity access went from 46.60% in 2019 to 45.20% in 2020, a 3.0% decrease.

HistorySaid - pattern alert

Rwanda matched the Stagflation Risk pattern in 2020. Historically: 307 occurrences, 117 successful (38%). Outcome 24 months later: 17.7%. View full analysis →

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