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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.

Without consistent access to reliable and affordable energy, even those in electrified areas miss out on the many benefits of electricity. The consequences of energy poverty can be severe, including serious harms to physical health and mental well-being, social exclusion, stigmatization, and the impairment of social, political, and economic opportunities. Leveraging recent advances in ...

The number of people worldwide lacking access to electricity in 2023 declined to 750 million people, about 10 million less than in 2022, which was the first year in decades showing a global reversal in progress.

Most people in the world take access to electricity for granted. But in many countries, only a small fraction of residents has access to electricity. The greatest need for electricity access is in sub-Saharan Africa, which has the top 10 countries with the least access to electricity.

Global energy access gap worsens as population growth outpaces new connections: 685 million people living without electricity access in 2022, 2.1 billion people continue to rely on damaging cooking fuels globally.

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 ...

Access to electricity is now an afterthought in most parts of the world, so it may come as a surprise to learn that 16% of the world’s population — an estimated 1.2 billion people — are still living without this basic necessity. Lack of access to electricity, or “energy poverty”, is the ultimate economic hindrance as it prevents people from participating in the modern economy. Where ...

The report reveals that 685 million people were without access to electricity in 2022 – 10 million more than in 2021. This is the first time the number of people without access to electricity increased in over a decade.

The global energy crisis, which will weigh heavily on negotiations at the COP27 Climate Change Conference that starts next week in Egypt, is also undermining efforts to ensure universal access to secure affordable energy, especially in the developing world where populations without access to electricity are once again growing. According to the latest IEA data, the number of people around the ...

Homes without reliable access to energy such as electricity, heating, cooling, etc. In developing countries and some areas of more developed countries, energy poverty is lack of access to modern energy services in the home. [1] In 2022, 759 million people lacked access to consistent electricity and 2.6 billion people used dangerous and inefficient cooking systems. [2] Their well-being is ...

Contact: Jon Meerdink (meerdink@umich.edu) ANN ARBOR — More than a billion people around the world live without access to sustainable, reliable, and affordable electricity according to a new paper. “ Lost in the Dark: A Survey of Energy Poverty from Space,” published this month in the scholarly journal Joule, used nighttime satellite imagery to survey energy usage in 115 countries ...

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.

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.

Hundreds of millions of people worldwide still lack basic access to electricity, with most of them in least developed countries (LDCs).

Need remains especially acute in sub-Saharan Africa, where despite the proliferation of technologies such as solar home systems, 600 million people still lack access to electricity – roughly the same number as in 2015.

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).

According to the 2019 SDG report, the number of people without household access to electricity fell from 1.2 billion in 2010 to 789 million in 2018. But with our metric above, we calculate that the number of people without access to reliable electricity services is over 3.5 billion. What does this mean for energy policy?

Having access to electricity is defined in international statistics as having an electricity source that can provide very basic lighting, and charge a phone or power a radio for 4 hours per day.

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.