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Follow access to electricity and global electricity demand signals from World Bank and IEA sources.

What this page shows

Energy pages are designed to grow into country comparisons, demand charts, and source snapshots.

The primary charts now come from normalized database observations. Snapshot cards remain useful for latest values, but time series and paired relationships get chart types that match the question.

Database charts

Energy over time and in context

These charts use normalized observations from the World Vitals database. Time-series charts show change; scatter plots show paired relationships where the data actually supports comparison.

World Bank

Electricity access became near-universal globally

The remaining gap is still large in human terms, but the historical direction is clear.

91.62023

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71.782.493.119982023
202391.599 percent of populationWorld Bank

World Bank

Energy use per person tracks industrial intensity

Per-capita energy use shows demand pressure without confusing it with population growth.

1,866.22023

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1,5401,7151,89019902023
20231,866.16 kg of oil equivalent per personWorld Bank

World Bank

Renewables are a growing electricity share

This share is about electricity output, not total energy consumption.

27.842021

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1722.928.819902021
202127.836 percent of electricity outputWorld Bank

World Bank

Fossil electricity remains structurally important

The fossil share shows why energy transition charts need both clean and legacy-system views.

46.632023

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44.957.269.519902023
202346.628 percent of electricity outputWorld Bank

World Bank WDI

Electricity access rose as child mortality fell

Each dot is one global year linking infrastructure access to under-five mortality.

Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.

34.760.686.471.793.1Access to electricity, % of populationUnder-five mortality, per 1,000 live births19982023
2023Access to electricity, % of population: 91.599Under-five mortality, per 1,000 live births: 38.3

World Bank WDI

Energy use and GDP per person expose development intensity

Per-capita energy use and GDP per person show scale without population hiding the relationship.

Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.

3,6138,78114K1,5401,890Energy use, kg oil equivalent per personGDP per capita, current US$19902023
2023Energy use, kg oil equivalent per person: 1,866.16GDP per capita, current US$: 13,236.72

World Bank WDI

Fossil and renewable energy shares expose the transition gap

The relationship uses total energy shares rather than electricity alone.

Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.

16.318.12080.383.1Fossil fuel energy consumption, %Renewable final energy consumption, %19902020
2020Fossil fuel energy consumption, %: 80.491Renewable final energy consumption, %: 19.736

Metric snapshots

Energy latest values

Snapshot and live-rate cards are kept separate from historical charts so they do not pretend to show a trend.

Energylatest annual

Access to electricity

91.6%
percent of population2023latest annual

World Bank estimate of the share of the global population with access to electricity.

World Bank / 2023
Energylatest annual

Electricity demand growth

2.2%
percent annual growth2023latest annual

IEA reported global electricity demand growth for 2023, with higher growth forecast through 2026.

International Energy Agency / 2023

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