Data · Energy & environment
Access to electricity (% of population): Vietnam, 1997–2024
- Latest (2024)
- 100.0 %
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Access to electricity is the percentage of population with access to electricity. Electrification data are collected from industry, national surveys and international sources.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1997 to 2024 (28 years of data). It moved from 78.4 to 100.0 %, a change of 27.6%. The highest value was 100.0 in 2017 and the lowest 78.4 in 1997. 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 | 100.0 |
| 2023 | 99.8 |
| 2022 | 100.0 |
| 2021 | 100.0 |
| 2020 | 99.8 |
| 2019 | 99.4 |
| 2018 | 100.0 |
| 2017 | 100.0 |
| 2016 | 99.2 |
| 2015 | 99.3 |
| 2014 | 99.2 |
| 2013 | 98.5 |
| 2012 | 97.9 |
| 2011 | 99.0 |
| 2010 | 97.4 |
| 2009 | 96.1 |
| 2008 | 93.8 |
| 2007 | 93.1 |
| 2006 | 96.0 |
| 2005 | 96.1 |
| 2004 | 91.0 |
| 2003 | 90.3 |
| 2002 | 89.1 |
| 2001 | 88.9 |
| 2000 | 88.2 |
| 1999 | 87.0 |
| 1998 | 86.2 |
| 1997 | 78.4 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2024 | 100.0 |
| Thailand | 2024 | 100.0 |
| Indonesia | 2024 | 99.9 |
| Malaysia | 2024 | 100.0 |
| Philippines | 2024 | 94.8 |
| Singapore | 2024 | 100.0 |
| Cambodia | 2024 | 99.2 |
| Laos | 2024 | 96.5 |
| Myanmar | 2024 | 80.4 |
| China | 2024 | 100.0 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Access to electricity (% of population), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.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_accs_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.