OWID: Access to electricity in urban vs. rural areas
The definition used in international statistics adopts a very low cutoff for what it means to ‘have access to electricity’. It is defined as having an electricity source that can provide very basic lighting, and charge a phone or power a radio for 4 hours per day. Source: SDG 7.1.1 Electrification Dataset, World Bank, via World Bank (2026), compiled by Our World in Data. 20,504 values; read with o.
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