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Power

How much of Nigeria is connected to electricity, based on the current public record.

This page reads the verified access-to-electricity record series from Data Civic, then presents the latest observation and the most recent history without inventing state granularity or unpublished source material.

% of population1990–present (annual)World Bank Open Data
Access to electricity (% of population)2023

61.2 %

Up 0.7 percentage points since 2022.

Source: World Bank Open Data

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Trend chart

Access to electricity trend

National verified record series from Data Civic. Unit: % of population.

Latest verified point

61.2 %

2023

National trend chart for access to electricity in Nigeria
National trend chart for access to electricity in NigeriaNational trend from 1990 to 2023. Latest value 61.2 %.1990: 27.3 %1991: 35.23 %1992: 36.1 %1993: 36.96 %1994: 37.83 %1995: 38.69 %1996: 39.55 %1997: 40.4 %1998: 41.25 %1999: 44.9 %2000: 43.2 %2001: 43.9 %2002: 44.6 %2003: 52.2 %2004: 46.1 %2005: 46.8 %2006: 47.6 %2007: 50.1 %2008: 50.3 %2009: 50 %2010: 48 %2011: 55.9 %2012: 53 %2013: 55.6 %2014: 54.2 %2015: 52.5 %2016: 59.3 %2017: 54.4 %2018: 56.5 %2019: 55.4 %2020: 55.4 %2021: 59.5 %2022: 60.5 %2023: 61.2 %1990202361.227.3

Data limitations

  • This page reports the national access-to-electricity series returned by Data Civic. It does not infer state-level power access from a country-level record.
  • Only verified public rows from the access-to-electricity endpoint are shown here. Missing years remain missing.
  • If the upstream record filter stops returning rows, the page falls back to an explicit no-record state instead of substituting another source.

Access to electricity record series

Latest verified observation: 2023 from World Bank Open Data.

34 total rows

YearGeographyValueIndicator codeSource
2023Nigeria61.2 %EG.ELC.ACCS.ZSWorld Bank Open Data
2022Nigeria60.5 %EG.ELC.ACCS.ZSWorld Bank Open Data
2021Nigeria59.5 %EG.ELC.ACCS.ZSWorld Bank Open Data
2020Nigeria55.4 %EG.ELC.ACCS.ZSWorld Bank Open Data
2019Nigeria55.4 %EG.ELC.ACCS.ZSWorld Bank Open Data
2018Nigeria56.5 %EG.ELC.ACCS.ZSWorld Bank Open Data
2017Nigeria54.4 %EG.ELC.ACCS.ZSWorld Bank Open Data
2016Nigeria59.3 %EG.ELC.ACCS.ZSWorld Bank Open Data
2015Nigeria52.5 %EG.ELC.ACCS.ZSWorld Bank Open Data
2014Nigeria54.2 %EG.ELC.ACCS.ZSWorld Bank Open Data
2013Nigeria55.6 %EG.ELC.ACCS.ZSWorld Bank Open Data
2012Nigeria53 %EG.ELC.ACCS.ZSWorld Bank Open Data
2011Nigeria55.9 %EG.ELC.ACCS.ZSWorld Bank Open Data
2010Nigeria48 %EG.ELC.ACCS.ZSWorld Bank Open Data
2009Nigeria50 %EG.ELC.ACCS.ZSWorld Bank Open Data