Worldwide, 1.2 billion people—17 percent of the global population—still lacked access to electricity in 2010. About 85 percent of those without access live in rural areas; 87 percent are found in Sub...
This brief examines planning for access to electricity. That electricity for all campaigns around the globe often fall short of their targets is partly a failure of planning. In the area of...
This infographic showcases key findings and messages from the IEG's evaluation of World Bank's support to electricity access. It demonstrates the global scale of the electricity access, challenges of...
A snapshot of the status of electricity access in the world, SEAR explores how countries can create a conducive environment for countries to make universal electricity access a reality, how clean...
Rwanda’s rapid achievements in expanding access to electricity after 2009 were made possible by one of the first applications of a sector-wide approach (SWAp) in the electricity sector.
Almost 1.1 billion people in the world still have no access to electricity. This video shares key messages and findings from IEG's evaluation of the World Bank Group support to Electricity Access....
This knowledge note is the second of three case studies that concerns scaling up access to electricity in Africa, Bangladesh, and Rwanda. Since its inception in 2003, Bangladesh's solar home system...
Win Win Nwe and her family live without electricity in Myanmar. They are among the 84% of people in rural Myanmar who have no electricity connection—making it hard for students to study at night,...
This knowledge note is the first of three case studies that concerns scaling up access to electricity in Africa, Bangladesh, and Rwanda. Lighting Africa, a joint IFC and World Bank program launched...
This brief will focus on enabling regulations for mini-grids, providing an overview of key issues, options, and good practices. While appropriate regulations are not all that is needed to spur mini-...
One billion people—one-seventh of the world’s population and mostly poor—have no access to electricity. Of 51 low-access countries in the world 40 are in Sub-Saharan Africa., which means that 591...
The World Bank has created the Africa Electricity Grids Explorer as a way to navigate the most up to date collection of open data on grid networks in Africa and the Middle East. This intends to...
"What is the cost for universal access to electricity for low- and middle-income countries?
Today, nearly 1 billion people, half of them in Africa, still lack access to electricity But...
"Learn why Sub-Saharan Africa's electricity access gap may only be improved by investing in its other infrastructural developments simultaneously."
Access to reliable electricity is a prerequisite...
Although the payment models offered by off-grid energy companies are less flexible than those implemented with great success by mobile telephone companies, they may still have an important role to...
Vanuatu's rural population, especially poor families, still has very limited access to electricity. The World Bank is working with the Government of Vanuatu and power providers to connect more than 4...
Sub-Saharan Africa’s electrification market is huge! Yet, more than 500 million of its consumers are waiting for modern off-grid lighting. Even though majority of these consumers are in the sub-...
"The Jiji and Mulembwe hydropower project in Burundi"
Only four percent of Burundi's 10 million-large population currently has access to electricity, marking some of the lowest access rates...
Rwanda is one of the first countries to use a SWAp in the energy sector to increase access to electricity.SWAp began with the goal of increasing electricity access from 6 percent of the population to...
"Electricity is a key constraint to internet access for poor households"
Target 9.c of the Sustainable Development Goals calls for the achievement of universal and affordable internet access by 2020...