Equatorial Guinea's access to electricity, urban (% of urban population) was 89.3% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 2.5 percentage points from 91.8% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 89.3% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 90.8% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 91.8% | 2014 |
| Highest | 94.5% | 2000 |
| Lowest | 89% | 2023 |
| Average since 2015 | 90.5% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 94.5% | 2000 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Equatorial Guinea's access to electricity, urban (% of urban population) rose 0.3 percentage points on 2023 (from 89% to 89.3%).
Across the 23 yearly changes before that (2001 to 2023), the average change was −0.24 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.27 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 2.0 standard deviations above 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 0.6 percentage points in 2010 and the biggest yearly fall was 0.9 percentage points in 2012. 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 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.29 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 95% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 88.47% for 2027. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2022 to 2024 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 0.4%, against 0.93% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2024, Equatorial Guinea had the 178th highest value of the 212 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Equatorial Guinea | 89.3% | 2024 |
| World | 97.76% | 2024 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 82.87% | 2024 |
| Upper middle income | 99.8% | 2024 |
Closest to Equatorial Guinea in the 2024 ranking
What this measures
Access to electricity, urban is the percentage of urban population with access to electricity.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 25 values
| Year | Access to electricity, urban (% of urban population) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 89.3 |
| 2023 | 89 |
| 2022 | 89.8 |
| 2021 | 90.3 |
| 2020 | 90.5 |
| 2019 | 90.8 |
| 2018 | 91 |
| 2017 | 91.2 |
| 2016 | 91.4 |
| 2015 | 91.7 |
| 2014 |
Access to electricity, urban (% of urban population) in nearby economies
- Angola — 78% (2024)
- Benin — 71.6% (2024)
- Botswana — 96.7% (2024)
- Burkina Faso — 87.8% (2024)
- Burundi — 70% (2024)
- Cabo Verde — 98.6% (2024)
- Cameroon — 95.6% (2024)
- Central African Republic — 38.8% (2024)
- Chad — 51% (2024)
- Comoros
More environment data for Equatorial Guinea
- Population in largest city — 512,750 (2025)
- Population in the largest city (% of urban population) — 36.96% (2025)
- Rural population — 550,978 (2025)
- Rural population (% of total population) — 28.42% (2025)
- Urban population — 1.39 million (2025)
- Urban population (% of total population) — 71.58% (2025)
- Aquaculture production (metric tons) — 21 (2024)
- Capture fisheries production (metric tons) — 7,253 (2024)
- Total fisheries production (metric tons) — 7,274 (2024)
- Rural population growth (annual %)
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Questions people ask
- What is Equatorial Guinea's access to electricity, urban (% of urban population)?
- 89.3% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2000?
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator EG.ELC.ACCS.UR.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: SDG 7.1.1 Electrification Dataset, World Bank (WB), uri: https://trackingsdg7.esmap.org/downloads, note: Data is downloaded from ESMAP website. Data is released when a new Tracking SDG7 report is released., publisher: World Bank (WB), date accessed: 2024-05-16, date published: 2023 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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