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The number of people without access to electricity by region and country. The chart shows the total number of people without access to electricity, grouped by world region.. We see a regional shift in electricity access over the past few decades: in 2000, nearly half of the world's people without access lived in South Asia.

For too many around the world, newly gained connections to electricity services have not resulted in meaningful benefits to their daily lives. In a newly released paper, we report that at least 1.18 billion are energy poor and unable to use electricity, a total that is 60% higher than the 733 million people who lack any electricity connection ...

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide still lack basic access to electricity, with most of them in least developed countries (LDCs). Date: 1 July 2021 Source: UNCTAD calculations based on data from the International Energy Agency and UNCTADstat. Note: Energy access data for Afghanistan, Bhutan, Kiribati, Solomon Islands, Timor-Leste and Tuvalu have been extrapolated using the LDC group average.

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Solar powered mini-grids don’t just have the potential to bring electricity to new markets, it can also replace the diesel-powered generators commonly used in Africa. For the 600 million people in sub-Saharan Africa who are still unable to fully participate in the modern world, these innovations can’t come soon enough.

Globally, policies on access to electricity are improving, as are measures to expand access to clean cooking solutions, which more than 2 billion people currently lack around the world. According to IEA analysis, policies have recently improved in countries that represent more than 30% of the population without electricity or clean cooking access.

Despite significant progress in recent years, the world is falling short of meeting the global energy targets set in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) for 2030. Ensuring affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all by 2030 remains possible but will require more sustained efforts, particularly to reach some of the world’s poorest populations and to improve ...

The number of people without access to electricity worldwide has dropped by more than half between 2000 and 2024, amounting to 737 million in the latter year.

Twenty years ago, the number of people without access to electricity was more than double what it is today. In 2019, an estimated 761 million people did not have electricity. Two decades ago more than 1.6 billion people were in this position. Today, more than three-quarters of those who do not have access to electricity live in Sub-Saharan Africa.

The lack of electricity around the world is "a massive problem" which puts people's lives at risk, according to a report launched at the UN in New York. The Poor People’s Energy Outlook Report says 4.3 million people die each year as a result of indoor air pollution caused by open-fire cooking. Half of child deaths under five are caused by fumes from dirty cooking fuels.

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Even if they can connect, other households can’t afford electricity bills or appliances to make good use of the electricity connection. Some micro-grid consumers in India spend about 7-10 percent of their total monthly expenditure on basic electricity services like lighting and mobile phone charging.

They are community-based grids that generate and distribute power at the point of consumption. And they could be the most cost-effective way to deliver access to more than a third of the 1.1 billion people across the world who still lack any electricity supply, according to new analysis by the International Energy Agency (IEA).

UN data has the still developing world as having an average of 4-5 people per home.. That means electricity access is “gained” when a per person use rate becomes 280 kWh per year ...

In a sign of great progress, over 120 million people worldwide gained access to electricity in 2017. This means that for the first time ever, the total number of people without access fell below 1 billion according to new data from World Energy Outlook 2018.. In particular, one of the greatest success stories in access to energy in 2018 was India completing the electrification of all of its ...

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 7 centres around achieving access to affordable, reliable, and sustainable modern energy for all by 2030. Currently, 1.2 billion people worldwide - one in every six people on the planet - do not have access to electricity.

Coal remained the largest source of electricity generation in the world, a position it has held for more than 50 years. In 2024, it accounted for 35% of total power generation. Natural gas was the second-largest source of electricity, marking more than two decades in which it has provided over 20% of global electricity.

In 2016, out of about 7.5 billion people nearly 1 billion lived without electricity or about 12%. In 1990, 1.5 billion people were without electricity, a decrease of 1/2 a billion, but also a decrease from 35% to 2016’s 12%. Their graph is interactive and users can choose individual countries, download the graph, and download the data.

In the space of five seconds, 15 gigawatts of energy suddenly dropped from Spain’s supply, Spanish government sources told CNN – equivalent to 60% of the electricity being consumed at the time ...