World Development Indicators
Internet use, access to electricity and clean cooking fuels, basic drinking water and sanitation, and adult literacy by country and for the world, for Humanity as 100 people and the world since your birth.
- Publisher
- World Bank
- Release
- 2026-10-08
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Origin
- databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators
- Retrieved
- 26 October 2026
- How to cite
- World Bank, World Development Indicators. Internet use: International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Access to electricity and to clean cooking fuels: Tracking SDG 7, The Energy Progress Report (World Bank, IEA, IRENA, UNSD, WHO). Adult literacy: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Basic drinking water and basic sanitation: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP).
- Coverage
- 216 of 237 countries and areas, with values from 1970 to 2025.
Indicators and units
| Indicator | Unit | Refers to |
|---|---|---|
| People using the internet | percent | The calendar year |
| Access to electricity | percent | The calendar year |
| Adult literacy (ages 15 and over) | percent | The calendar year |
| percent | The calendar year | |
| percent | The calendar year | |
| percent | The calendar year |
How we process it
- Every page of the World Bank API read for six indicators, with each indicator’s own licence (CC BY 4.0) and producer.
- Countries kept apart from regional and income aggregates, and matched to the UN countries and areas by ISO code.
- Only years with a published value stored, each with the year it was observed. A missing year stays missing, it is never filled in.
Known limitations
- Countries report in different years, so the latest value can be several years old. The year is always shown with it.
- Literacy is measured in censuses and surveys, often years apart, and partly self-reported.
- The World Bank names a few areas differently from the UN, and the Channel Islands appear as one area there, Jersey and Guernsey as two in the UN data.
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