Data · Energy & environment
Electric power transmission and distribution losses (% of output): Vietnam, 1990–2024
- Latest (2024)
- 6.7 %
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- EG.ELC.LOSS.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Electric power transmission and distribution losses include losses in transmission between sources of supply and points of distribution and in the distribution to consumers, including pilferage. The losses are expressed as a share of the total output.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1990 to 2024 (35 years of data). It moved from 25.4 to 6.7 %, a change of -73.8%. The highest value was 25.6 in 1992 and the lowest 5.9 in 2023. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (%) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 6.7 |
| 2023 | 5.9 |
| 2022 | 5.9 |
| 2021 | 6.5 |
| 2020 | 6.5 |
| 2019 | 6.5 |
| 2018 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 7.2 |
| 2016 | 7.6 |
| 2015 | 8.0 |
| 2014 | 9.3 |
| 2013 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 10.1 |
| 2007 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 11.3 |
| 2005 | 11.7 |
| 2004 | 13.0 |
| 2003 | 12.9 |
| 2002 | 14.0 |
| 2001 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 15.0 |
| 1998 | 16.1 |
| 1997 | 18.2 |
| 1996 | 19.3 |
| 1995 | 21.7 |
| 1994 | 22.5 |
| 1993 | 24.0 |
| 1992 | 25.6 |
| 1991 | 25.5 |
| 1990 | 25.4 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2024 | 6.7 |
| Thailand | 2024 | 7.0 |
| Indonesia | 2024 | 6.1 |
| Malaysia | 2024 | 6.9 |
| Philippines | 2024 | 9.8 |
| Singapore | 2024 | 0.2 |
| Cambodia | 2024 | 10.2 |
| Laos | 2024 | 5.5 |
| Myanmar | 2024 | 7.2 |
| China | 2024 | 3.1 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Electric power transmission and distribution losses (% of output), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.LOSS.ZS?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name eg_elc_loss_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.