Electric power transmission and distribution losses
Electric power transmission and distribution losses as a share of total output, for the 8-country panel (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Japan, China, India). Losses in transmission between sources of supply and points of distribution and in the distribution to consumers, including pilferage, expressed as a share of total output. The World Bank publishes the indicator in the World Development Indicators from the IEA Energy Statistics Data Browser (accessed 2025-03-25). It complements the connector's renewable-electricity-output-share and access-to-electricity datasets: grid efficiency alongside generation mix and access. The 8-country panel is covered 2000-2024 (China and India latest published 2023) - genuine upstream gaps, kept verbatim, never interpolated. Units: % of output.
- Source
- World Bank
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Yearly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 24, 2026
- Theme
- energy
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| country_code | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code). |
| country_name | string | Country name as published by the World Bank API. |
| year | integer | Calendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date). |
| value | float | Indicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: % of output) |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| country_code | country_name | year | value |
|---|---|---|---|
| CAN | Canada | 2,000 | 8.881 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,001 | 8.752 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,002 | 8.563 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,003 | 8.137 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,004 | 8.728 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,005 | 3.562 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,006 | 3.805 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,007 | 3.368 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,008 | 3.709 |
| CAN | Canada | 2,009 | 4.323 |
Profiled Sep 24, 2026 from snapshot 20260924T153154Z-d7b964f96f4a
Measured- Completeness
- 98.8%
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Columns with gaps
- 1
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| country_codevarchar | 0% | 7 | — |
|
| country_namevarchar | 0% | 9 | — |
|
| yearbigint | 0% | 27 | 2,000 → 2,025median 2,013 | |
| valuedouble | 4.8% | 178 | 3.37 → 28.66median 5.65 | 4 outside 1st–99th percentile |
- Current
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208 rows · first snapshot
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/electric_power_transmission_distribution_losses" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/world_bank/electric_power_transmission_distribution_losses").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/world_bank/electric_power_transmission_distribution_losses
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@misc{dz_world_bank_electric_power_transmission_d_d7b964f9,
title = {{Electric power transmission and distribution losses}},
author = {{World Bank}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/electric_power_transmission_distribution_losses?snapshot=20260924T153154Z-d7b964f96f4a}},
note = {Snapshot 20260924T153154Z-d7b964f96f4a, sha256 d7b964f96f4a8ac758432e13d10519217090c88b7d57bd1f6df07b6598885323; accessed 2026-09-24}
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