Eli5: Why do we define current as the rate of flow of charges and not rate of flow of electron?

Question

Since current caused by the movement of electrons in the wire so shouldn’t current be define rate of flow of electron?

In: Physics

Answer 1

There are a few videos by veritasium on Youtube that explain these things if you are interested, but electricity isn’t *fully* created by the movement of electrons alone, but rather by them pushing on each other.