Electricity Access, Africa

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EN-GB'>This map shows electricity access in Africa. The data source is from the
International Energy Agency’s World Energy Outlook. The International Energy
Agency’s World Energy Outlook first constructed a database on electrification
rates for WEO-2002. The database once again was updated for WEO-2015, showing
detailed data on national, urban and rural electrification.</span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;
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EN-GB'> The general paucity of data on electricity access means that it must be
gathered through a combination of sources, including: IEA energy statistics; a
network of contacts spanning governments, multilateral development banks and
country-level representatives of various international organisations; and,
other publicly available statistics, such as US Agency for International
Development (USAID) supported DHS survey data, the World Bank’s Living
Standards Measurement Surveys (LSMS), the UN Economic Commission for Latin
America and the Caribbean’s (ECLAC) statistical publications, and data from
national statistics agencies. In the small number of cases where no data could
be provided through these channels other sources were used. If electricity
access data for 2013 was not available, data for the latest available year was
used. </span></p>

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EN-GB'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>For many countries, data on the urban and rural breakdown was collected,
but if not available an estimate was made on the basis of pre-existing data or
a comparison to the average correlation between urban and national
electrification rates. Often only the percentage of households with a
connection is known and assumptions about an average household size are used to
determine access rates as a percentage of the population. To estimate the
number of people without access, population data comes from OECD statistics in
conjunction with the United Nations Population Division reports World
Urbanization Prospects: the 2014 Revision Population Database, and World
Population Prospects: the 2012 Revision. Electricity access data is adjusted to
be consistent with demographic patterns of urban and rural population. Due to
differences in definitions and methodology from different sources, data quality
may vary from country to country. Where country data appeared contradictory,
outdated or unreliable, the IEA Secretariat made estimates based on
cross-country comparisons and earlier surveys.</span></p>

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