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São Tomé and Principe - Electricity Access 2012

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Access to electricity as % of population · World Bank

57.90% −4.70pp from 2011 Global rank: 165th

São Tomé and Principe's electricity access was 57.90% in 2012, decreased +4.70pp from 62.60% in 2011. This was the 165th highest globally.

Global Ranking - 2012▾

Electricity Access by Country - 2012
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%	5.7%
5th	Australia	100.00%	0.0%
6th	Austria	100.00%	0.0%
7th	Azerbaijan	100.00%	0.1%
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	Chile	100.00%	0.4%
18th	Curaçao	100.00%	0.0%
19th	Cayman Islands	100.00%	0.0%
20th	Cyprus	100.00%	0.0%
21st	Czechia	100.00%	0.0%
22nd	Germany	100.00%	0.0%
23rd	Denmark	100.00%	0.0%
24th	Spain	100.00%	0.0%
25th	Estonia	100.00%	0.0%
26th	Finland	100.00%	0.0%
27th	France	100.00%	0.0%
28th	Faroe Islands	100.00%	0.0%
29th	United Kingdom	100.00%	0.0%
30th	Georgia	100.00%	0.0%
31st	Greece	100.00%	0.0%
32nd	Greenland	100.00%	0.0%
33rd	Guam	100.00%	0.0%
34th	Hong Kong SAR, China	100.00%	0.0%
35th	Croatia	100.00%	0.0%
36th	Hungary	100.00%	0.0%
37th	Isle of Man	100.00%	0.0%
38th	Ireland	100.00%	0.0%
39th	Iceland	100.00%	0.0%
40th	Israel	100.00%	0.0%
41st	Italy	100.00%	0.0%
42nd	Japan	100.00%	0.0%
43rd	Kazakhstan	100.00%	0.2%
44th	St. Kitts and Nevis	100.00%	0.0%
45th	Korea	100.00%	0.0%
46th	Kuwait	100.00%	0.0%
47th	Liechtenstein	100.00%	0.0%
48th	Lithuania	100.00%	0.3%
49th	Luxembourg	100.00%	0.0%
50th	Latvia	100.00%	0.2%
51st	Macao SAR, China	100.00%	0.0%
52nd	St. Martin (French part)	100.00%	0.0%
53rd	Monaco	100.00%	0.0%
54th	Malta	100.00%	0.0%
55th	Northern Mariana Islands	100.00%	0.0%
56th	New Caledonia	100.00%	0.0%
57th	Netherlands	100.00%	0.0%
58th	Norway	100.00%	0.0%
59th	New Zealand	100.00%	0.0%
60th	Oman	100.00%	0.0%
61st	Poland	100.00%	0.0%
62nd	Puerto Rico (US)	100.00%	0.0%
63rd	Portugal	100.00%	0.0%
64th	French Polynesia	100.00%	0.0%
65th	Qatar	100.00%	0.0%
66th	Russian Federation	100.00%	0.8%
67th	Saudi Arabia	100.00%	0.0%
68th	Singapore	100.00%	0.0%
69th	San Marino	100.00%	0.0%
70th	Slovak Republic	100.00%	0.0%
71st	Slovenia	100.00%	0.0%
72nd	Sweden	100.00%	0.0%
73rd	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	100.00%	0.0%
74th	Trinidad and Tobago	100.00%	2.6%
75th	Türkiye	100.00%	0.0%
76th	United States	100.00%	0.0%
77th	Virgin Islands (US)	100.00%	0.0%
78th	Albania	99.90%	0.2%
79th	China	99.90%	0.0%
80th	Gibraltar	99.90%	0.1%
81st	Turkmenistan	99.90%	0.1%
82nd	Ukraine	99.90%	-0.1%
83rd	European Union	99.81%	0.0%
84th	Kyrgyz Republic	99.80%	1.5%
85th	Malaysia	99.80%	0.3%
86th	West Bank and Gaza	99.80%	0.1%
87th	Serbia	99.80%	0.1%
88th	Bosnia and Herzegovina	99.70%	0.0%
89th	Egypt, Arab Republic of	99.70%	0.3%
90th	Uzbekistan	99.70%	0.0%
91st	North Macedonia	99.60%	-0.1%
92nd	Uruguay	99.60%	0.4%
93rd	Armenia	99.50%	0.0%
94th	Brazil	99.50%	0.2%
95th	Costa Rica	99.50%	0.3%
96th	Iran, Islamic Republic of	99.50%	0.0%
97th	Jordan	99.50%	-0.1%
98th	Lebanon	99.50%	-0.2%
99th	Moldova	99.50%	0.1%
100th	Tunisia	99.50%	0.0%
101st	Mauritius	99.40%	-0.2%
102nd	Nauru	99.40%	0.4%
103rd	Iraq	99.30%	1.3%
104th	Montenegro	99.30%	0.3%
105th	Maldives	99.20%	0.1%
106th	Argentina	99.10%	0.1%
107th	Mexico	99.10%	0.1%
108th	Thailand	99.10%	-0.2%
109th	Tajikistan	99.10%	0.2%
110th	British Virgin Islands	98.90%	0.2%
111th	Algeria	98.80%	-0.2%
112th	Cuba	98.30%	0.3%
113th	Seychelles	98.30%	0.2%
114th	Dominican Republic	97.90%	0.0%
115th	Viet Nam	97.90%	-1.1%
116th	Paraguay	97.80%	-0.4%
117th	Romania	97.80%	0.4%
118th	Tuvalu	97.70%	0.7%
119th	Palau	97.60%	-1.3%
120th	Ecuador	97.20%	0.3%
121st	Colombia	97.00%	0.3%
122nd	Samoa	96.80%	0.1%
123rd	Morocco	96.40%	0.3%
124th	Indonesia	96.00%	1.3%
125th	Belarus	95.60%	0.6%
126th	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	95.40%	1.4%
127th	St. Lucia	95.30%	-0.1%
128th	Bulgaria	94.70%	0.6%
129th	Suriname	94.60%	0.0%
130th	El Salvador	93.70%	1.2%
131st	Dominica	93.50%	3.8%
132nd	Jamaica	93.10%	2.2%
133rd	Turks and Caicos Islands	93.10%	-6.9%
134th	Tonga	92.80%	0.7%
135th	Fiji	92.60%	0.1%
136th	Bhutan	91.50%	11.9%
137th	Peru	91.10%	1.6%
138th	Belize	90.90%	-0.9%
139th	Syrian Arab Republic	90.70%	-0.9%
140th	Bolivia, Plurinational State of	90.40%	2.4%
141st	Marshall Islands	90.40%	0.6%
142nd	Grenada	90.20%	1.6%
143rd	Gabon	89.30%	0.7%
144th	Panama	89.30%	0.8%
145th	Pakistan	88.60%	0.9%
146th	Philippines	87.10%	-0.1%
147th	Sri Lanka	87.00%	-0.9%
148th	Guatemala	86.80%	3.3%
149th	South Africa	85.20%	1.9%
150th	Guyana	85.10%	1.1%
151st	Mongolia	83.70%	16.1%
152nd	Honduras	83.60%	1.7%
153rd	Cabo Verde	83.20%	1.1%
154th	Nicaragua	81.30%	0.1%
155th	India	79.90%	0.5%
156th	Libya	78.70%	-2.0%
157th	Kiribati	76.70%	2.4%
158th	Lao PDR	76.40%	9.1%
159th	Nepal	75.20%	11.7%
160th	Comoros	69.30%	0.0%
161st	Afghanistan	69.10%	60.0%
162nd	Micronesia, Federated States of	67.80%	2.3%
163rd	Equatorial Guinea	65.70%	-0.6%
164th	Bangladesh	65.50%	9.9%
165th	São Tomé and Principe	57.90%	-7.5%
166th	Ghana	56.50%	-11.9%
167th	Senegal	56.50%	0.0%
168th	Botswana	56.00%	5.3%
169th	Timor-Leste	56.00%	6.3%
170th	Côte d'Ivoire	55.80%	0.0%
171st	Myanmar	55.30%	2.2%
172nd	Cameroon	55.20%	2.8%
173rd	Djibouti	54.60%	-6.0%
174th	Eswatini	54.30%	6.1%
175th	Nigeria	53.00%	-5.2%
176th	Yemen, Republic of	52.40%	-15.5%
177th	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	51.80%	-0.4%
178th	Gambia, The	49.90%	3.3%
179th	Namibia	46.40%	9.7%
180th	Zimbabwe	44.00%	19.2%
181st	Vanuatu	43.90%	4.5%
182nd	Solomon Islands	42.90%	9.7%
183rd	Eritrea	42.30%	2.7%
184th	Cambodia	42.30%	13.1%
185th	Congo, Republic of	41.60%	2.0%
186th	Sudan	40.70%	6.3%
187th	Togo	39.10%	-1.5%
188th	Benin	38.40%	4.1%
189th	Kenya	38.10%	5.2%
190th	Haiti	37.90%	0.3%
191st	Angola	37.30%	7.8%
192nd	Mauritania	36.40%	3.1%
193rd	Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of	33.60%	7.0%
194th	Zambia	29.20%	3.2%
195th	Guinea	26.20%	-11.2%
196th	Mali	25.60%	-11.1%
197th	Mozambique	21.20%	5.0%
198th	Lesotho	20.60%	-8.4%
199th	Uganda	20.50%	40.4%
200th	Madagascar	18.70%	30.8%
201st	Papua New Guinea	17.50%	1.2%
202nd	Rwanda	17.50%	62.0%
203rd	Sierra Leone	17.20%	21.1%
204th	Congo, Democratic Republic of	15.40%	12.4%
205th	Tanzania	15.30%	7.7%
206th	Burkina Faso	15.10%	2.0%
207th	Guinea-Bissau	14.90%	10.4%
208th	Niger	14.40%	0.7%
209th	Central African Republic	11.00%	5.8%
210th	Liberia	9.30%	126.8%
211th	Chad	7.80%	-13.3%
212th	Malawi	7.40%	-2.6%
213th	Burundi	6.50%	4.8%
214th	South Sudan	3.30%	17.9%

FAQ

What was São Tomé and Principe's electricity access in 2012?▾

São Tomé and Principe's electricity access in 2012 was 57.90%. This ranked 165th globally.

How did São Tomé and Principe's electricity access change in 2012?▾

São Tomé and Principe's electricity access decreased by 7.5% in 2012 compared to 2011.

Which country had the highest electricity access in 2012?▾

Aruba had the highest electricity access in 2012 at 100.00%.

What is the electricity access of São Tomé and Principe in 2012?▾

The electricity access of São Tomé and Principe in 2012 was 57.90%. This ranked 165th globally.

How does 2012 compare to 2011 for São Tomé and Principe's electricity access?▾

São Tomé and Principe's electricity access went from 62.60% in 2011 to 57.90% in 2012, a 7.5% decrease.

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