Panama's access to electricity, rural (% of rural population) was 92.1% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 17.6 percentage points from 74.5% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 92.1% | 2024 |
| Ten years earlier | 74.5% | 2014 |
| Highest | 100% | 2017 |
| Lowest | 40.52% | 1990 |
| Average since 2015 | 88.97% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 40.52% | 1990 |
Since 1990 it is up 51.58 percentage points from 40.52% in 1990. The World Bank has no value for 3 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.
What the numbers say
In 2024, Panama's access to electricity, rural (% of rural population) rose 1.4 percentage points on 2023 (from 90.7% to 92.1%).
Across the 28 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2023), the average change was +1.79 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.94 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 21.9 percentage points in 2017 and the biggest yearly fall was 12.2 percentage points in 2004. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2024, Panama had the 145th highest value of the 208 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Panama | 92.1% | 2024 |
| World | 84.89% | 2024 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 91.03% | 2024 |
| High income | 99.86% | 2024 |
Closest to Panama in the 2024 ranking
What this measures
Access to electricity, rural is the percentage of rural population with access to electricity.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 32 values
| Year | Access to electricity, rural (% of rural population) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 92.1 |
| 2023 | 90.7 |
| 2022 | 100 |
| 2021 | no data |
| 2020 | 85.6 |
| 2019 | no data |
| 2018 | no data |
| 2017 | 100 |
| 2016 | 78.1 |
| 2015 | 76.3 |
| 2014 |
Access to electricity, rural (% of rural population) in nearby economies
- Antigua and Barbuda — 100% (2024)
- Argentina — 79.8% (2024)
- Aruba — 100% (2024)
- Bahamas, The — 100% (2024)
- Barbados — 100% (2024)
- Belize — 99.5% (2024)
- Bolivia — 88.7% (2024)
- Brazil — 99.2% (2024)
- British Virgin Islands — 100% (2024)
- Cayman Islands
More environment data for Panama
- Population in largest city — 2.05 million (2025)
- Population in the largest city (% of urban population) — 67.94% (2025)
- Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million — 2.05 million (2025)
- Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million (% of total population) — 44.95% (2025)
- Rural population — 1.55 million (2025)
- Rural population (% of total population) — 33.85% (2025)
- Urban population — 3.02 million (2025)
- Urban population (% of total population) — 66.15% (2025)
- Aquaculture production (metric tons) — 18,038 (2024)
- Capture fisheries production (metric tons)
Reading data like this
Questions people ask
- What is Panama's access to electricity, rural (% of rural population)?
- 92.1% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 1990?
- It is up 51.58 percentage points from 40.52% in 1990. The highest value was 100% in 2017 and the lowest 40.52% in 1990.
- How does Panama rank?
- 145th highest of 208 economies with data for 2024.
- Is the latest change in access to electricity, rural (% of rural population) unusual for Panama?
- In 2024, Panama's access to electricity, rural (% of rural population) rose 1.4 percentage points on 2023 (from 90.7% to 92.1%). Across the 28 yearly changes before that (1991 to 2023), the average change was +1.79 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 5.94 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.1 standard deviations below that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator EG.ELC.ACCS.RU.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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