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URBAN VERSUS RURAL
source: www.gnesd.org/Download
ables/Energy_Access_I/Synthesis_
Report_ver_30_April_2004.pdf
IEA, ‘World Energy Outlook’, 2002,
http://www.iea.org/textbase/
nppdf/free/2000/weo2002.pdf
http://www.iea.org/textbase/
nppdf/free/2002/energy_poverty.pdf
www.biodiversityhotspots.org
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4 out of 5 people without electricity live in rural areas:
 in Africa, more than 83% of the rural population lacks access to electricity;
in South Asia the figure is 70%.
Urban and rural electrification levels by region (2000) | | urban
% | rural
% | national
% | | Africa | 63.1 | 16.9 | 34.3 | | South Asia | 68.2 | 30.1 | 40.8 | | Latin America | 98.0 | 52.4 | 86.6 | | Middle East | 98.5 | 76.6 | 91.1 | | East Asia/China | 98.5 | 81.0 | 86.9 | | Developing countries | 85.6 | 51.1 | 64.2 | | World | 91.2 | 56.9 | 72.8 |
The pattern of electricity deprivation is set to change, because 95% of the increase in population in the next 30 years will occur in urban areas.
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