Business & Markets · Electricity access · Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso’s electricity access rose to 34% of population in 2024.
34% of population
2024
Up 12.3 pp from 2023.
Updated 8 Oct 2026
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34% of population
What it is. Electricity access is the share of a country's people who can obtain electricity, shown here as a percentage of the population. It counts people with a connection or supply, so it moves when new connections outpace population growth. It says nothing about how many hours the power stays on, what it costs or how much a household uses.
Higher is better. Higher is better because every extra point means more people can use lighting, phone charging, refrigeration and powered tools at home and at work. The latest figure is 34% of population in 2024, up from 21.7% of population a year earlier, a rise of 12.3 percentage points. Since 2015 the lowest reading was 14.4% of population in 2018, and the 2024 figure is the highest in that span.
Why it matters. At 34% of population, most people in Burkina Faso still live without electricity and depend on lamps, batteries or other fuels for light and power. The recent jump gives more households and small businesses a chance to run equipment, store goods and work after dark. Whether the 2024 level holds and keeps rising in the next annual reading is the check for the state and for investors in the grid.
| Period | Electricity access · Burkina Faso |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 16.2% of population |
| 2016 | 16.6% of population |
| 2017 | 17% of population |
| 2018 | 14.4% of population |
| 2019 | 17.6% of population |
| 2020 | 18.5% of population |
| 2021 | 19% of population |
| 2022 | 19.5% of population |
| 2023 | 21.7% of population |
| 2024 | 34% of population |
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0) · Licence: CC BY 4.0
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Strata-AF™ Data, Electricity access, Burkina Faso, 2024; source World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0), retrieved 8 Oct 2026; https://data.strata-af.com/business/electricity-access/burkina-faso
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Population with access to electricity. Unit: % of population.
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (series EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS), retrieved through the World Bank API and published under CC BY 4.0. Updated annually; the World Bank's own source notes apply.