217 countries and territories are tracked over a 30-year period measuring the percentage of the population with access to electricity. The data is categorized by year and geographic region to monitor progress toward UN Sustainable Development Goal 7.
Use Cases
- Perform longitudinal trend analysis using the Year and Access to electricity percentage columns to identify regions with the fastest electrification rates
- Correlate electricity access percentages with economic indicators by joining the dataset with external GDP data via country labels
- Visualize global disparities in energy infrastructure using the geographic identifiers and percentage values
- Forecast future energy infrastructure needs by modeling historical growth rates found in the percentage of population data
Strengths
- Time-series data spanning from 1990 to the present for over 200 countries
- Standardized percentage values representing total population access to electricity
- Includes geographic identifiers for regional and global aggregation
- Direct alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goal indicator 7.1.1