Burkina Faso vs South Africa: Access to electricity

Access to electricity in 2024: 34% in Burkina Faso and 90.2% in South Africa, by World Bank estimates. In 2024 the value was higher in South Africa, by 56.2 percentage points, or 2.65 times that in Burkina Faso.

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% of people · World Bank

Burkina FasoSouth AfricaWorld

What the numbers say

South Africa has been higher in every year both have figures for since 1996.
In 2024, Burkina Faso ranked 206 and South Africa ranked 159 of 213 countries, counting from the highest.
The world as a whole: 91.9% in 2024.

Every year

% of people · World Bank

Year	Burkina Faso	South Africa	World
2024	34	90.2	91.9
2023	21.7	87.7	91.6
2022	19.5	86.5	91.3
2021	19	89.3	91.3
2020	18.5	90	90.4
2019	17.6	85	90.1
2018	14.4	84.7	89.8
2017	17	84.4	88.9
2016	16.6	83.9	88.1
2015	16.2	85.3	86.9
2014	19.2	85.9	86.2
2013	15.4	85.2	85.7
2012	15.1	85.2	84.9
2011	14.8	83.6	84.5
2010	13.1	82.8	83.5
2009	12.6	82.6	82.9
2008	12.5	81.9	82.7
2007	12	82	82
2006	11.6	80.7	81.4
2005	11.1	80.8	80.7
2004	10.7	80.6	80
2003	11.4	78.8	80
2002	9.9	76.7	79.1
2001	9.5	70.2	78.7
2000	9.1	72.4	78.2
1999	6.9	71.3	74.5
1998	8.1	64.9	73.2
1997	7.6	69.5	–
1996	7.1	57.6	–
1995	6.6	–	–
1994	6.1	–	–
1993	6.1	–	–

Each country on its own

Good to know

The share of people with access to electricity, from national surveys and the power industry.
Source: Tracking SDG 7 (World Bank ESMAP), via the World Bank.
Ranks count the 213 countries with a value in 2024, highest first.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

How the layers work, where their data comes from and what they can’t tell you: Countries through time

Burkina Faso vs South Africa

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Deaths in conflictsBurkina Faso: 2,595 deaths in 2022South Africa: 0 deaths in 2022