Congo - Kinshasa vs Italy: Access to electricity

Access to electricity in 2024: 22.5% in Congo - Kinshasa and 100% in Italy, by World Bank estimates. In 2024 the value was higher in Italy, by 77.5 percentage points, or 4.44 times that in Congo - Kinshasa.

Watch it change on the map

% of people · World Bank

Congo - KinshasaItalyWorld

What the numbers say

Italy has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2000.
The world as a whole: 91.9% in 2024.

Every year

% of people · World Bank

Year	Congo - Kinshasa	Italy	World
2024	22.5	100	91.9
2023	22.1	100	91.6
2022	21.5	100	91.3
2021	20.8	100	91.3
2020	20.1	100	90.4
2019	19.1	100	90.1
2018	18.7	100	89.8
2017	18	100	88.9
2016	17.3	100	88.1
2015	16.6	100	86.9
2014	13.5	100	86.2
2013	15.2	100	85.7
2012	15.4	100	84.9
2011	13.7	100	84.5
2010	13	100	83.5
2009	12.3	100	82.9
2008	11.6	100	82.7
2007	15.2	100	82
2006	10.2	100	81.4
2005	6	100	80.7
2004	9	100	80
2003	8.3	100	80
2002	7.7	100	79.1
2001	7.1	100	78.7
2000	6.7	100	78.2
1999	–	100	74.5
1998	–	100	73.2
1997	–	100	–
1996	–	100	–
1995	–	100	–
1994	–	100	–
1993	–	100	–
1992	–	100	–
1991	–	100	–
1990	–	100	–

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

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Deaths in conflictsCongo - Kinshasa: 5,228 deaths in 2022Italy: 0 deaths in 2022