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Guyana — Electricity access
Access to Electricity (% of Population) for Guyana, 1993–2024.
Latest value · 2024
93.00%
Access to Electricity (% of Population) · % of population · +28.5% since 1993
Electricity access for Guyana was 93.00% in 2024, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 32 years, from 1993 to 2024. The highest recorded value was 98.90% in 2023. The lowest was 70.71% in 1994 (about 1.3× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.81% per year.
Guyana ranks 157 of 215 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 73%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 99.80%, so Guyana sits below it. It peaked in 2023 and has fallen 6% since. Over the last decade (2014–2024) the figure moved up 7%.
Key figures
Latest (2024)
93.00%
First (1993)
72.38%
Change
+28.5%
Highest
98.90%
in 2023
Lowest
70.71%
in 1994
Average
81.74%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.81%
Years of data
32
Recent years
| Year | % of population |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 93% |
| 2023 | 98.9% |
| 2022 | 93% |
| 2021 | 92.9% |
| 2020 | 92.3% |
| 2019 | 91.6% |
| 2018 | 90.9% |
| 2017 | 90% |
| 2016 | 89% |
| 2015 | 88% |
| 2014 | 86.9% |
| 2013 | 86% |
Reading this correctly. Share of the population with access to electricity. Access means the household is connected to a source that provides a reliable supply. Figures are in % of population. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS — Access to Electricity (% of Population). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.