Dominican Republic's electric power transmission and distribution losses (% of output) was 7.86% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 4.79 percentage points from 12.65% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 7.86% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 12.87% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 12.65% | 2014 |
| Highest | 28.16% | 1995 |
| Lowest | 7.86% | 2024 |
| Average since 2015 | 12.38% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 24.36% | 1990 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Dominican Republic's electric power transmission and distribution losses (% of output) fell 4.94 percentage points on 2023 (from 12.8% to 7.86%).
Across the 30 yearly changes before that (1994 to 2023), the average change was −0.49 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 3.4 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.3 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 4.98 percentage points in 1997 and the biggest yearly fall was 17 percentage points in 1998. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 25% of the movement over 10 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2024, Dominican Republic had the 89th highest value of the 109 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Dominican Republic | 7.86% | 2024 |
| World | 6.94% | 2023 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 13.62% | 2024 |
| Upper middle income | 6.26% | 2023 |
Closest to Dominican Republic in the 2024 ranking
- Azerbaijan — 85th of 109: 7.93%
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 86th of 109: 7.93%
- Georgia — 87th of 109: 7.9%
- Myanmar — 89th of 109: 7.21%
- Thailand — 90th of 109: 6.97%
- Malaysia — 91st of 109: 6.9%
What this measures
Electric power transmission and distribution losses include losses in transmission between sources of supply and points of distribution and in the distribution to consumers, including pilferage. The losses are expressed as a share of the total output.
Limitations: Electricity consumption is equivalent to production less power plants' own use and transmission, distribution, and transformation losses less exports plus imports. It includes consumption by auxiliary stations, losses in transformers that are considered integral parts of those stations, and electricity produced by pumping installations. Where data are available, it covers electricity generated by primary sources of energy - coal, oil, gas, nuclear, hydro, geothermal, wind, tide and wave, and combustible renewables. Neither production nor consumption data capture the reliability of supplies, including breakdowns, load factors, and frequency of outages.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average using total electricity production as weights.
All 35 values
| Year | Electric power transmission and distribution losses (% of output) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 7.86 |
| 2023 | 12.8 |
| 2022 | 13.14 |
| 2021 | 12.89 |
| 2020 | 12.89 |
| 2019 | 12.87 |
| 2018 | 12.83 |
| 2017 | 12.88 |
| 2016 | 12.85 |
| 2015 | 12.76 |
| 2014 |
Electric power transmission and distribution losses (% of output) in nearby economies
More environment data for Dominican Republic
- Population in largest city — 3.65 million (2025)
- Population in the largest city (% of urban population) — 43.67% (2025)
- Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million — 3.65 million (2025)
- Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million (% of total population) — 31.67% (2025)
- Rural population — 3.17 million (2025)
- Rural population (% of total population) — 27.48% (2025)
- Urban population — 8.35 million (2025)
- Urban population (% of total population) — 72.52% (2025)
- Aquaculture production (metric tons)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Dominican Republic's electric power transmission and distribution losses (% of output)?
- 7.86% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1990?
- It is down 16.5 percentage points from 24.36% in 1990. The highest value was 28.16% in 1995 and the lowest 7.86% in 2024.
- How does Dominican Republic rank?
- 89th highest of 109 economies with data for 2024.
- Is the latest change in electric power transmission and distribution losses (% of output) unusual for Dominican Republic?
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator EG.ELC.LOSS.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: IEA Energy Statistics Data Browser, International Energy Agency (IEA), uri: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-statistics-data-browser, publisher: International Energy Agency (IEA), date accessed: 2025-03-25 Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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