Business & Markets · Electricity access · Eswatini
Eswatini’s electricity access rose to 89.3% of population in 2024.
89.3% of population
2024
Up 2.9 pp from 2023.
Updated 8 Oct 2026
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89.3% of population
What it is. Electricity access is the share of a country's people who have electricity available to them at home. It is usually built from household surveys and utility or national records. It records whether a connection exists. Hours of supply, reliability, voltage quality and the cost of a unit are all outside it.
Higher is better. More people with electricity means more homes with light, refrigeration and phone charging, and more places where small businesses can run equipment. The latest figure for Eswatini is 89.3% of population in 2024, up from 86.4% of population a year earlier, a gain of 2.9 percentage points. Since 2015 the lowest reading was 63.4% of population in 2016. The 2024 figure is the highest in that span.
Why it matters. For most Swazi households, electricity is now a normal part of daily life, supporting lighting, food storage and study after dark. Households still outside the network depend on fuels such as candles, paraffin or wood, which cost time and money and carry health risks. For the state and the utility, the task is extending the grid or off-grid supply to the remaining households, and the next annual reading will show whether the 2024 pace of gain holds.
| Period | Electricity access · Eswatini |
|---|---|
| 2015 | 64.1% of population |
| 2016 | 63.4% of population |
| 2017 | 73.5% of population |
| 2018 | 74% of population |
| 2019 | 77% of population |
| 2020 | 80% of population |
| 2021 | 82.9% of population |
| 2022 | 82.3% of population |
| 2023 | 86.4% of population |
| 2024 | 89.3% 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, Eswatini, 2024; source World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0), retrieved 8 Oct 2026; https://data.strata-af.com/business/electricity-access/eswatini
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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.