Share of households without electricity access in Nigeria 2019, by zone
According to the results of a survey from 2019, 79.1 percent of households in North East Nigeria did not have access to electricity, the highest share in the country. Generally, the majority of households with no electricity were located in the North of the country, whereas the South reported the lowest shares. In the South South zone, for instance, about 27 percent of households had no electricity access.