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. When we look at a nation's share of the population with access to electricity, we are looking at the literal illumination of daily existence, the expansion of the evening, and the powering of the tools that sustain modern homes. For Colombia, the story across three centuries is below — every value is a statistical fact about the lives actually lived there.

In the 1800s estimate 0, 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, illumination was entirely apart from the grid. By the 1900s estimate 1.01 %, a tiny fraction had gained access. Growth quickened 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. In the 2020s, electricity at home in Colombia stands at 100 % — ranking #14 of 157 countries, holding 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.

If you lived in Colombia at the dawn of this timeline, your household operated entirely in the dark hours without electrical current, whereas today you take instant light and power for granted. Keep exploringLife Expectancy at Birth in ColombiaIncome per Person (GDP per capita, PPP) in ColombiaChild Mortality (under 5) in ColombiaYears of Schooling in ColombiaChildren per Woman in ColombiaLiving in Cities in ColombiaFull country profile: ColombiaWhere do YOU rank among everyone ever born? →