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Nigeria
Access to electricity, urban (% of urban population)

Access to electricity, urban is the percentage of urban population with access to electricity.

Global rank#186out of 213 countries
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Historical trend

89.286.984.582.279.8199020072024Nigeria · 2024: 86Nigeria

Analytical takeaways

  • Nigeria records 86 for Access to electricity, urban (% of urban population) in 2024, ranking #186 globally out of 213 countries.
  • Access to electricity, urban (% of urban population) increased from 82 in 1990 to 86 in 2024, a gain of 3.
  • The country sits in the bottom quartile of the global distribution for this metric, which also makes the page relevant for low-value and lagging-performance searches.

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