Topic · World Bank · WHO · OECD
Infrastructure
Internet, electricity, mobile access, and physical infrastructure.
- 5
- Indicators
- 217
- Countries with data
Infrastructure · thin shelf
5 infrastructure indicators on a narrow shelf - Gibraltar tops access to clean water.
- 5
- infrastructure indicators
- #1
- Gibraltar · Access to Clean Water
- narrow
- shelf vs other topics
Each indicator below shows the current top five; open any one for the full world ranking with the data year for every country.
High-income share among 217 countries with infrastructure data
World Bank income-group counts among countries that have at least one ranking row for an indicator in this topic. Segments sum to 217 - coverage shape, not a living-standard ranking.
Reading Infrastructure
This is a narrow infrastructure shelf - only 5 indicators - so each card below carries more weight than on a wide topic. Treat the set as one reading, not 5 unrelated headlines.
Infrastructure currently publishes 5 indicators (Access to Clean Water, Access to Electricity, Access to Sanitation, Internet Users) from World Bank Open Data. Internet, electricity, mobile access, and physical infrastructure. Gibraltar currently leads access to clean water at 100.0%.
Among the 217 countries with at least one infrastructure ranking row, high-income economies are a large share of the coverage set. Sparse shelves like this often skew toward reporters that publish on schedule - missing rows are unpublished, never filled.
Cite the year on each full ranking when you reuse a figure. We do not impute or carry forward stale infrastructure values - a blank cell means the source has not published yet.
Source: World Bank Open Data
Nearby shelves by indicator count
Closest topic widths to this 5-indicator shelf (not a fixed roster).
- Environment · 5 indicators
- Education · 6 indicators
- Social · 6 indicators
Access to Clean Water
% of population| # | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gibraltar | 100.0% |
| 2 | Hong Kong SAR, China | 100.0% |
| 3 | Hungary | 100.0% |
| 4 | Iceland | 100.0% |
| 5 | Kuwait | 100.0% |
Access to Electricity
% of population| # | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aruba | 100.0% |
| 2 | Albania | 100.0% |
| 3 | Andorra | 100.0% |
| 4 | United Arab Emirates | 100.0% |
| 5 | Argentina | 100.0% |
Access to Sanitation
% of populationInternet Users
% of population| # | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | United Arab Emirates | 100.0% |
| 2 | Bahrain | 100.0% |
| 3 | Saudi Arabia | 100.0% |
| 4 | Denmark | 99.8% |
| 5 | Kuwait | 99.7% |
Mobile Subscriptions
per 100 people| # | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fiji | 574.2 |
| 2 | Hong Kong SAR, China | 364.8 |
| 3 | Montenegro | 221.7 |
| 4 | Sint Maarten (Dutch part) | 205.4 |
| 5 | United Arab Emirates | 203.2 |
Next read: Environment (5 indicators) · full access to clean water ranking . Reporting years differ by country and indicator; unavailable values are omitted rather than estimated.
What to do with these Infrastructure indicators
A single shelf rarely tells the whole story -- use it as a starting point, not a verdict.
- Open the full access to clean water ranking to see every country, not just the top rows shown here. Access to Clean Water ranking
- Put any two countries side by side across every tracked indicator. Compare countries
- Browse the environment shelf (5 indicators) for the next adjacent topic. Environment
Reporting years differ by country and indicator; unavailable values are omitted rather than estimated.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced and computed.