Value-added panel of the World Bank's World Development Indicators (keyless API v2, CC BY 4.0): access to electricity — the share of the population with access — total/urban/rural for ~230 economies, 1990-2024, from the World Bank SDG 7.1.1 Electrification Dataset, with the urban-rural electrification gap, 10-year and 1-year changes, within-year access ranks, low-access and near-universal flags, and an electrification-collapse flag. The SDG 7.1.1 layer for energy-access planning, utilities and development finance; joins on economy_code with the catalog's other World Bank panels.

Source: World Bank electricity access intelligence
Rows: 6,762
Columns: 16
Source cadence: Yearly
Last refreshed: Oct 7, 2026
Theme: energy

Column	Type	Description
economy_code	string	ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 economy code (World Bank API field countryiso3code).
economy_name	string	Economy name as published by the World Bank API.
region	string	World Bank region (API field region.value).
income_group	string	World Bank income group (API field incomeLevel.value).
year	integer	Reference year (1990-2024; 2024 is the latest broadly covered year).
elec_access_pct	float	Access to electricity: the share of the total population with access to electricity (WDI indicator EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS; World Bank SDG 7.1.1 Electrification Dataset). (unit: percent of population)
elec_access_urban_pct	float	Access to electricity: the share of the urban population with access to electricity (WDI indicator EG.ELC.ACCS.UR.ZS; World Bank SDG 7.1.1 Electrification Dataset). (unit: percent of urban population)
elec_access_rural_pct	float	Access to electricity: the share of the rural population with access to electricity (WDI indicator EG.ELC.ACCS.RU.ZS; World Bank SDG 7.1.1 Electrification Dataset). (unit: percent of rural population)
urban_rural_gap_pp	float	Urban access minus rural access. Positive values mean higher urban access; the direction is never gated (it can run either way, e.g. BGD 2024). Nulled where the source contradicts its own accounting identity (total outside [urban, rural]) — the raw series are kept verbatim. (unit: percentage points)
elec_access_change_10y_pp	float	Trailing 10-year change of total electricity access; null when the base year is absent. (unit: percentage points)
elec_access_change_1y_pp	float	Year-on-year change of total electricity access; null when the prior year is absent. (unit: percentage points)
access_rank	integer	Rank of elec_access_pct within the year (1 = lowest access, the deficit lens); null where the total rate is null. (unit: rank)
low_access_flag	integer	1 when total electricity access is below 50% (analytic cutoff, own definition); null when the total rate is null.
universal_flag	integer	1 when total electricity access is at least 99.5% (analytic cutoff, own definition); null when the total rate is null.
collapse_flag	integer	1 when the 1-year change is <= -2 percentage points (an electrification-collapse year); null when the 1-year change is null.
row_hash	string	Deterministic 12-hex row identity hash (economy_code\|year).

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economy_code	economy_name	region	income_group	year	elec_access_pct	elec_access_urban_pct	elec_access_rural_pct	urban_rural_gap_pp	elec_access_change_10y_pp	elec_access_change_1y_pp	access_rank	universal_flag	collapse_flag	row_hash
ABW	Aruba	Latin America & Caribbean	High income	1,990	100	100	100	0	—	—	27	1	—	59b9939dea0e
ABW	Aruba	Latin America & Caribbean	High income	1,991	99.154	99.924	98.374	1.55	—	-0.846	29	0	0	8b0f0923d7fa
ABW	Aruba	Latin America & Caribbean	High income	1,992	99.197	99.966	98.428	1.538	—	0.043	43	0	0	eec2dc95462f
ABW	Aruba	Latin America & Caribbean	High income	1,993	99.24	99.99	98.502	1.489	—	0.043	52	0	0	c1b01e146fee
ABW	Aruba	Latin America & Caribbean	High income	1,994	100	100	100	0	—	0.76	63	1	0	117ee27173fe
ABW	Aruba	Latin America & Caribbean	High income	1,995	100	100	100	0	—	0	65	1	0	65a5a89d7667
ABW	Aruba	Latin America & Caribbean	High income	1,996	100	100	100	0	—	0	74	1	0	7a4774a17ae4
ABW	Aruba	Latin America & Caribbean	High income	1,997	100	100	100	0	—	0	80	1	0	448a9f868f2c
ABW	Aruba	Latin America & Caribbean	High income	1,998	100	100	100	0	—	0	86	1	0	6cfd8415793a
ABW	Aruba	Latin America & Caribbean	High income	1,999	100	100	100	0	—	0	92	1	0	450f0cef38ca

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

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

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World Bank electricity access intelligence. (2026). Global electricity access panel (urban/rural, SDG 7.1.1) [Data set, snapshot 20261007T142537Z-ab8dc1be07e0, sha256 ab8dc1be07e0]. Datazimuts. Retrieved 2026-10-08, from https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/wb_electricity_access_intel/electricity_access_panel?snapshot=20261007T142537Z-ab8dc1be07e0

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@misc{dz_wb_electricity_access_intel_electricity__ab8dc1be,
  title        = {{Global electricity access panel (urban/rural, SDG 7.1.1)}},
  author       = {{World Bank electricity access intelligence}},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Datazimuts},
  howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/wb_electricity_access_intel/electricity_access_panel?snapshot=20261007T142537Z-ab8dc1be07e0}},
  note         = {Snapshot 20261007T142537Z-ab8dc1be07e0, sha256 ab8dc1be07e037328e805d5a263dbb7368f00d00edcc8c27afd86be60ae2d359; accessed 2026-10-08}
}

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