Countries in Asia by access to electricity

Countries in Asia by access to electricity, World Bank, 2024

#	Country	% of people	Region
=1	Armenia	100.0%	Western Asia
=1	Azerbaijan	100.0%	Western Asia
=1	Bahrain	100.0%	Western Asia
=1	Bhutan	100.0%	Southern Asia
=1	Brunei	100.0%	South-Eastern Asia
=1	China	100.0%	Eastern Asia
=1	Cyprus	100.0%	Western Asia
=1	Georgia	100.0%	Western Asia
=1	Iran	100.0%	Southern Asia
=1	Iraq	100.0%	Western Asia
=1	Israel	100.0%	Western Asia
=1	Japan	100.0%	Eastern Asia
=1	Jordan	100.0%	Western Asia
=1	Kazakhstan	100.0%	Central Asia
=1	Kuwait	100.0%	Western Asia
=1	Kyrgyzstan	100.0%	Central Asia
=1	Lebanon	100.0%	Western Asia
=1	Malaysia	100.0%	South-Eastern Asia
=1	Maldives	100.0%	Southern Asia
=1	Oman	100.0%	Western Asia
=1	Qatar	100.0%	Western Asia
=1	Saudi Arabia	100.0%	Western Asia
=1	Singapore	100.0%	South-Eastern Asia
=1	South Korea	100.0%	Eastern Asia
=1	Sri Lanka	100.0%	Southern Asia
=1	Thailand	100.0%	South-Eastern Asia
=1	Turkey	100.0%	Western Asia
=1	Turkmenistan	100.0%	Central Asia
=1	United Arab Emirates	100.0%	Western Asia
=1	Uzbekistan	100.0%	Central Asia
=1	Vietnam	100.0%	South-Eastern Asia
=32	India	99.9%	Southern Asia
=32	Indonesia	99.9%	South-Eastern Asia
=32	Tajikistan	99.9%	Central Asia
35	Bangladesh	99.5%	Southern Asia
36	Cambodia	99.2%	South-Eastern Asia
37	Mongolia	99.1%	Eastern Asia
38	Nepal	97.9%	Southern Asia
39	Laos	96.5%	South-Eastern Asia
40	Pakistan	95.7%	Southern Asia
41	Philippines	94.8%	South-Eastern Asia
42	Timor-Leste	94.3%	South-Eastern Asia
43	Syria	89.3%	Western Asia
44	Afghanistan	87.8%	Southern Asia
45	Yemen	86.3%	Western Asia
46	Myanmar	80.4%	South-Eastern Asia
47	North Korea	61.4%	Eastern Asia

No World Bank figure for Taiwan.

Territories and other places

Not ranked: dependencies of the states above, places whose status is disputed. Highest first.

Place	% of people	Status
Hong Kong	100.0%	Territory of China
Macao	100.0%	Territory of China
Palestine	100.0%	Status disputed

Questions

Which country in Asia has the widest access to electricity?

Armenia has the widest access to electricity in Asia: 100.0% with electricity (2024). Next come Azerbaijan (100.0% with electricity) and Bahrain (100.0% with electricity).

Which country in Asia has the least access to electricity?

North Korea, with 61.4% with electricity (2024).

What is the typical access to electricity of a country in Asia?

The median of the 47 countries in Asia is 100.0% with electricity: half are above it, half below. The median, not the average, because a few countries at the top would drag an average far above almost everyone.

Where do the figures come from?

The share of people who have electricity at home. Source: World Bank, 2024. Only independent states are ranked; territories are listed separately. A country’s continent follows Natural Earth; the handful of island states it files under the open ocean are placed by their UN subregion.

Source: World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Figures more than 5 years older than the newest are left out rather than shown beside current ones. Countries sharing a value share a rank. All sources.