Electricity at Home in Chile: 1800 to Today (and Tomorrow)

To understand the human experience across time in Chile, we can trace a single, quiet transformation inside the home: the arrival of light. Every value recorded here is a statistical fact about the lives actually lived there, tracking how human routines shifted as darkness retreated. What began as a rare flicker across generations eventually became a universal constant, reshaping the boundaries of the evening and the rhythm of daily domestic life.

The historical arc stretches across three centuries, moving from the earliest decades where the estimate stood at 0 and 0.1, slowly climbing through the 1820s estimate at 0.2, the 1830s estimate at 0.3, the 1840s estimate at 0.41, the 1850s estimate at 0.51, the 1860s estimate at 0.61, the 1870s estimate at 0.71, the 1880s estimate at 0.81, and the 1890s estimate at 0.91. By the 1900s estimate it was 1.01 %, before accelerating through the 1910s estimate at 8.96, the 1920s estimate at 16.91, the 1930s estimate at 24.86, and the 1940s estimate at 32.81. The climb continued through the 1950s at 40.75, the 1960s at 51.04, the 1970s at 61.32, the 1980s at 71.6, the 1990s at 80.98, the 2000s at 90.37, and the 2010s at 95.18.

If you were born in the 2020s, electricity at home in Chile stands at 100 %, ranking #12 of 157 countries, with the 2030s projection, 2040s projection, 2050s projection, 2060s projection, 2070s projection, 2080s projection, 2090s projection, and 2100s projection all holding firmly at 100. This complete coverage defines the modern baseline of a household, contrasting sharply with the 1900 figure of 1.01 %. Where do YOU rank among everyone ever born? →