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

At MYRIAD, we explore the statistics of human lives to understand how daily existence transforms over time. For electricity at home in Thailand, the data tells a profound story of illumination and modern change, mapping the exact share of the population with access to power across three centuries. Every value in this record reflects a statistical fact about the lives actually lived there, tracking how a nation transitioned from total darkness into an era of reliable household energy.

The historical arc of this transformation is measured decade by decade. In the 1800s estimate it stood at 0, slowly creeping through the 1810s estimate at 0.05, the 1820s estimate at 0.1, the 1830s estimate at 0.15, the 1840s estimate at 0.2, the 1850s estimate at 0.25, the 1860s estimate at 0.3, the 1870s estimate at 0.36, the 1880s estimate at 0.41, and the 1890s estimate at 0.46. By the 1900s estimate it reached 0.51 %, before accelerating through the 1910s estimate at 3.46, the 1920s estimate at 6.42, the 1930s estimate at 9.37, the 1940s estimate at 12.33, the 1950s at 15.28, the 1960s at 25.53, the 1970s at 35.78, and the 1980s at 46.03. The pace quickened further in the 1990s at 66.66, the 2000s at 87.29, and the 2010s at 93.64.

Today, in the 2020s, electricity at home in Thailand stands at 100 %, ranking #61 of 157 countries, with the 2030s projection, 2040s projection, 2050s projection, 2060s projection, 2070s projection, 2080s projection, 2090s projection, and 2100s projection all holding steady at 100. If you were born in earlier centuries, your daily routines were entirely untouched by the electric grid, whereas modern generations take continuous power entirely for granted. Keep exploring where do YOU rank among everyone ever born? ->