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At a global level, the share of people with access to electricity has been steadily increasing over the last few decades. In 2000, 2 in 10 people lacked access to electricity; this number has since decreased, with fewer than 1 in 10 lacking access in recent years. Most of this increase has been driven by growth in low and middle-income economies.

The number of people without access to electricity peaked in 2022, as a result of the energy crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine. In that year, population growth outpaced efforts to extend access due to the compounded effects of these crises. The number of people without electricity in 2023 stabilised at around 600 million, well above the ...

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.

In 2022,7.2 billion people worldwide were connected to the electricity network, while 0.7 had no access to electricity. The global share of people with access to electricity increased from 71 ...

Many more people live without electricity than lack access to electricity. Credit: Christopher Scott/Alamy Almost 1.2 billion people went without electricity in 2020 — 60% more than previously ...

Africa’s Access to Electricity. In 1995, a mere 20% of sub-Saharan Africa’s population had access to power. While today’s figure is above 40%, that still means roughly 600 million people in the region are living without access to electricity. Not surprisingly, energy poverty disproportionately impacts rural Africans.

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.

Population without electricity access, 2010-2024 - Chart and data by the International Energy Agency.

While the number of people with access to modern energy increased to 91 percent in 2020, from 81 percent in 2010, the number of those living without electricity stands at 733 million with another 2.4 billion without access to clean cooking, according to the latest ‘Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report’.

Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all; The number of people without electricity more than halved over the last 20 years; Charts. Absolute annual change in primary energy consumption; Access to clean fuels for cooking vs. per capita energy use; Access to electricity vs. GDP per capita

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 at all in 2020, according to official data.

Rural areas face exceptionally high levels of energy poverty, making up the majority of the estimated 70% of households in the Pacific Islands region that lack access to electricity. Roughly a billion people—13% of the global population—don’t have access to electricity and many more face regular disruptions

Today, there are about 15,000 families—60,000 people—who don’t have electricity on the Navajo Nation, but public power utilities are reducing the number.

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 ...

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.

Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie put it this way when explaining the effects of poor electricity in Nigeria: I cannot help but wonder how many medical catastrophes have occurred in public hospitals because of “no light,” how much agricultural produce has gone to waste, how many students forced to study in stuffy, hot air have failed exams ...

The number of people without electricity more than halved over the last 20 years. Hannah Ritchie. Explore charts that include this data. Number of people with and without electricity access; Number of people without access to electricity By world region; Chart 1 of 2. Sources and processing.

Currently, 1.2 billion people worldwide - one in every six people on the planet - do not have access to electricity. Based on a business-as-usual scenario, some 780 million people are projected to remain without it by 2030. A radical new approach is needed if this trajectory is to be remedied.

New IEA geospatial analysis, in an “Energy for All” scenario, shows that to provide universal electricity access to 1.3 billion people by 2030 (a number that includes projected population growth), mini-grids would be the cheapest technology for connecting 450 million people, two-thirds of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa.