Getting electricity: Cost to get electricity (% of income per capita) in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Getting electricity: Cost to get electricity (% of income per capita) was 82.7% in 2019. ▲ Rising
Getting electricity: Cost to get electricity (% of income per capita) in Zimbabwe, 2009–2019
Source: World Bank.
Analysis
In 2019, getting electricity: cost to get electricity (% of income per capita) in Zimbabwe stood at 82.7%. That is the highest value across all 11 years on record.
That represents a change of up 22.5% on the previous year and up 490.8% over ten years.
Over the whole period, getting electricity: cost to get electricity (% of income per capita) in Zimbabwe peaked at 82.7% in 2019 and was at its lowest, 14.0%, in 2009.
Zimbabwe ranks 157th of 191 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 11 years of available data.
Getting electricity: Cost to get electricity (% of income per capita) in Zimbabwe, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 14.0% | — |
| 2010 | 23.9% | +70.5% |
| 2011 | 45.5% | +90.5% |
| 2012 | 59.5% | +30.9% |
| 2013 | 58.5% | -1.8% |
| 2014 | 63.1% | +7.9% |
| 2015 | 63.9% | +1.3% |
| 2016 | 63.5% | -0.6% |
| 2017 | 67.9% | +6.9% |
| 2018 | 67.5% | -0.5% |
| 2019 | 82.7% | +22.5% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 14.0% | 14.0% | 14.0% | 1 |
| 2010s | 59.6% | 23.9% | 82.7% | 10 |
Countries ranked near Zimbabwe
More private sector data for Zimbabwe
- Merchandise trade 38.7% (2025)
- Food imports 19.0% (2024)
- Manufactures imports 58.3% (2024)
- Merchandise imports 10.11 billion current US$ (2025)
- Food exports 21.6% (2024)
- Manufactures exports 6.7% (2024)
- Merchandise exports 9.71 billion current US$ (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per capita 572.66 current US$ per person (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), per unit of GDP 0.1895 current US$ per US$ of GDP (2025)
- Merchandise exports (current US$), annual growth rate 30.61 % change on previous year (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is getting electricity: cost to get electricity (% of income per capita) in Zimbabwe?
- Getting electricity: cost to get electricity (% of income per capita) in Zimbabwe was 82.7% in 2019, according to the World Bank.
- What is the highest getting electricity: cost to get electricity (% of income per capita) recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The highest recorded value was 82.7% in 2019.
- What is the lowest getting electricity: cost to get electricity (% of income per capita) recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The lowest recorded value was 14.0% in 2009.
- How does Zimbabwe rank for getting electricity: cost to get electricity (% of income per capita)?
- Zimbabwe ranks 157th out of 191 countries with data for 2019.
- Is getting electricity: cost to get electricity (% of income per capita) rising or falling in Zimbabwe?
- Over the last ten years it is up 490.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Zimbabwe data come from?
- The figures come from the World Bank, published as part of Getting electricity: Cost to get electricity (% of income per capita) - Score. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
Download this data
CSV · JSON — 11 observations, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data).
About this data
The score for cost benchmarks economies with respect to the regulatory best practice on the indicator. The score ranges from 0 to 100, where 0 represents the worst regulatory performance and 100 the best regulatory performance.