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

Electricity at home is a quiet measure of how human lives are transformed across time. It represents the literal illumination of daily existence, the expansion of the evening, and the powering of tools that sustain modern homes. To move from a world of candlelight to one of current is to fundamentally alter the rhythm of the household. For those living through this shift, electricity was not merely a utility, but a liberation from the constraints of the sun.

The trajectory across three centuries reveals a slow awakening followed by a surge. In the 1800s estimate 0, the shift began imperceptibly through the 1810s estimate 0.1, the 1820s estimate 0.2, the 1830s estimate 0.3, the 1840s estimate 0.41, the 1850s estimate 0.51, the 1860s estimate 0.61, the 1870s estimate 0.71, the 1880s estimate 0.81, and the 1890s estimate 0.91. By the 1900s estimate 1.01 %, the grid emerged. Growth accelerated through the 1910s estimate 8.96, the 1920s estimate 16.91, the 1930s estimate 24.86, the 1940s estimate 32.81, the 1950s 40.75, the 1960s 51.04, the 1970s 61.32, the 1980s 71.6, the 1990s 80.98, the 2000s 90.37, and the 2010s 95.18.

Today, the reality is total. In the 2020s, electricity at home in Colombia stands at 100 % — ranking #14 of 157 countries. This saturation is expected to hold steady through the 2030s projection 100, the 2040s projection 100, the 2050s projection 100, the 2060s projection 100, the 2070s projection 100, the 2080s projection 100, the 2090s projection 100, and the 2100s projection 100. While a person born in 1900 experienced a world of darkness, you now inherit a legacy of constant light.

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