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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

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Global electrification has risen steadily since World War II, reaching 73 percent in 2000 and 90 percent in 2019 (the pandemic year of 2020 was the. All too obviously, real access to electricity in large parts of Africa is akin to where the United States was during the late 1890s. first year in decades when the rate did not go up).