Share of the global population with access to electricity. A foundational welfare indicator: electricity access underpins health care, education, refrigeration, communications and economic opportunity, and the remaining gap is concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa.
How to read it
Higher is better — readings above the norm count as better.
Measured value over time. Its norm (100 % of population) is far off this scale, so the series stays worse than norm throughout — the deviation badge shows the gap.
Each driver linked to this indicator, strongest pull first, on the same timeline above. Markers are the facts that moved that driver. These are modelled influences — treat them as correlational unless a documented causal edge is shown.
Distributed solar and mini-grids extend electricity access in off-grid regions, modestly improving global access over a multi-year horizon.
Share of the global population with access to electricity. A foundational welfare indicator: electricity access underpins health care, education, refrigeration, communications and economic opportunity, and the remaining gap is concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa.
This indicator’s slice of Factrail’s verified causal web — the people, facts, drivers and welfare indicators it connects to. Select any node to trace a path.
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