Sentences with phrase «electricity access grew»

Among the positive trends: the primary energy intensity of the global economy improved at a faster 2.8 % pace in 2015; for the first time in all regions of the world, electricity access grew faster than population growth; in Bangladesh and Mongolia, energy access gains were nearly 10 percent.

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And the fastest - growing population on Earth is the middle class, which — whether in India or Indiana — revolves around access to electricity and mobility.

In sub-Saharan Africa, the access rate grows to 59 % in 2030, from 43 % in 2016, however, the number of people without electricity access in the region begins to grow again as efforts fail to accelerate.

There has been some progress: since 2000, the number of people in developing countries with access to clean cooking — principally liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), natural gas and electricity, has grown by 60 %, and the number of people cooking with coal and kerosene has more than halved.

Authorities insist they must focus on meeting the growing needs of its 1.25 billion people, 300 million of whom lack access to electricity.

A growing community of energy access entrepreneurs are trying to bring off - grid products to market in Tanzania, India and other countries with large populations without electricity.

Energy demand in Southeast Asia grows at one of the fastest rates in the world yet around 65 million people across the ten Association of Southeast Asian Nations countries are without access to electricity.

EIA expects household per capita disposable income to grow by an average of 3.2 % per year as more people have access to electricity and the ownership of electricity - using appliances and equipment (particularly air conditioners) grows.

As a result the world's population is growing at about the same rate as the population gaining access to electricity — meaning 1.3 billion people are permanently left behind if something doesn't change.

They will grow up stunted in stature and damaged in their brains, all because they lack access to cheap electricity, running clean water and sewer facilities and clothes washing and refrigeration and schools and houses and adequate supplies of fertilizer - grown food that electricity enables.

Without access to affordable, reliable, grid - based electricity, which coal provides, it is impossible for economies to grow and develop.