Electric power transmission and distribution losses

Electric power transmission and distribution losses include losses in transmission between sources of supply and points of distribution and in the distribution to consumers, including pilferage. The losses are expressed as a share of the total output.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
149
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    International Energy Agency

    IEA Energy Statistics Data Browser, International Energy Agency (IEA), uri: https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/data-tools/energy-statistics-data-browser, publisher: International Energy Agency (IEA), date accessed: 2025-03-25

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  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Argentina202421.84percent
Australia20244.71percent
Austria20243.82percent
Belgium20244.30percent
Brazil202414.97percent
Canada20244.15percent
Chile20245.91percent
Colombia20247.78percent
Costa Rica20249.07percent
Czechia20244.27percent

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