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

Access to electricity is the percentage of population with access to electricity. Electrification data are collected from industry, national surveys and international sources.

Global rank#172out of 215 countries
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Historical trend

81.373.966.459.051.5200020122024Sao Tome and Principe · 2024: 78Sao Tome and Principe

Analytical takeaways

  • Sao Tome and Principe records 78 for Access to electricity (% of population) in 2024, ranking #172 globally out of 215 countries.
  • Access to electricity (% of population) increased from 53 in 2000 to 78 in 2024, a gain of 25.
  • 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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