Proportion of population with access to electricity, by urban/rural (%)

Name: Proportion of population with access to electricity, by urban/rural (%)
Creator: UN SDG Global Database
License: https://www.un.org/en/aboutun/terms/
Keywords: electricity, energy-access, sdg7

Proportion of population with access to electricity, by urban/rural (%) SDG indicator EG_ACS_ELEC (SDG goal 7). Source: UN SDG Global Database. Rows are geo-area x year x disaggregation dimensions (sex, age, location/urban-rural where published).

Source: UN SDG Global Database18,240 rowsUpdated: 9/21/2026

electricityenergy-accesssdg7

Quality

Attribution

United Nations Statistics Division, SDG Global Database

Schema

Column	Type	Description
date	timestamp	Start date of the observation year (UN SDG API field timePeriodStart).
year	integer	Year of observation (UN SDG API field timePeriodStart).
series_id	string	Stable row key: geo-area code plus the SDG dimension codes for this observation.
series_label	string	Human-readable label: geo-area name plus the UN SDG API dimension code descriptions for this observation.
geo_area_code	string	UN SDG API field geoAreaCode (UN M49 area code; aggregates such as regions and income groups use codes like 2 for Africa).
geo_area_name	string	Geo-area name (UN SDG API field geoAreaName).
location	string	Disaggregation dimension from the UN SDG API (dimension 'Location'). Provider code values include: RURAL: Rural; ALLAREA: All areas; URBAN: Urban.
reporting_type	string	Disaggregation dimension from the UN SDG API (dimension 'Reporting Type'). Provider code values include: N: National; G: Global.
unit	string	Measurement unit description from the UN SDG API 'Units' attribute metadata for this series.
data_nature	string	Nature of the data point from the UN SDG API 'Nature' attribute metadata (e.g. Country data, Estimated data, Modelled data, Global monitoring data).
source	string	Source credit from the UN SDG API record (UN SDG API field source). Runs of 10+ digits are stripped from this per-row credit because they falsely trip the platform's phone-number PII heuristic; the full verbatim citation is preserved in the dataset description.
value	float	Estimate value for the geo-area, year and disaggregation dimensions, as published in the UN SDG Global Database (UN SDG API field value). Definition and unit are those of the SDG series — see the dataset description.

Sample rows

date	year	series_id	series_label	geo_area_code	geo_area_name	location	reporting_type	unit	data_nature	source	value
2000-01-01T00:00:00	2000	1.ALLAREA.G	World — All areas — Global	1	World	ALLAREA	G	Percentage	Non-relevant	World Bank	78.4
2001-01-01T00:00:00	2001	1.ALLAREA.G	World — All areas — Global	1	World	ALLAREA	G	Percentage	Non-relevant	World Bank	78.8
2002-01-01T00:00:00	2002	1.ALLAREA.G	World — All areas — Global	1	World	ALLAREA	G	Percentage	Non-relevant	World Bank	79.2
2003-01-01T00:00:00	2003	1.ALLAREA.G	World — All areas — Global	1	World	ALLAREA	G	Percentage	Non-relevant	World Bank	80.1
2004-01-01T00:00:00	2004	1.ALLAREA.G	World — All areas — Global	1	World	ALLAREA	G	Percentage	Non-relevant	World Bank	80.1

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Use with an LLM

Point any LLM at the metadata endpoint — the documentation above is machine-readable too (JSON-LD + Croissant).

cURL

curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/unsdg/electricity_access" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'

Python

import requests

ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/unsdg/electricity_access").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")

# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
    print(row)

API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/unsdg/electricity_access

Tip: fetch /llms.txt for the full machine-readable catalog.