This product is a spatial distribution product for the electricity status of African buildings in 2014/2020, with a spatial resolution of 500 meters. The products include the spatial distribution of major building areas in Africa that are powered or not powered. Timely and accurate access to the spatial distribution and changes in African building electrification conditions helps to solve the problems of missing data and lagging updates in some countries of existing electrification rate data, and helps to improve the monitoring capacity of African building electrification conditions, providing data support for the formulation of targeted electricity supply strategies.. The data products include the spatial distribution of major building areas in Africa with or without electricity.