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Sao Tome and Principe
Access to electricity, urban (% of urban population)

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

Global rank#193out of 213 countries
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Historical trend

81.977.473.068.564.0200020122024Sao Tome and Principe · 2024: 79Sao Tome and Principe

Analytical takeaways

  • Sao Tome and Principe records 79 for Access to electricity, urban (% of urban population) in 2024, ranking #193 globally out of 213 countries.
  • Access to electricity, urban (% of urban population) increased from 64 in 2000 to 79 in 2024, a gain of 15.
  • 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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