Sentences with phrase «population had access to electricity»

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday said 50 million people out of the nation's 180 million population have no access to electricity.

The biodigester - sanitation systems also provide a fuel source in a place where only about 10 percent of the population has access to electricity, and about 70 percent of the energy used comes from wood and charcoal, which costs around 25 - 50 percent of a household's income.

bearing in mind that only a small percentage of earths population have access to electricity, if we enabled all under developed countries in the world with fossil fuel electricity and heating systems, we would likely have to cover every sq inch of farmland in trees to combat climate change.rather than outright fighting the building of wind turbines (that in future times can be repaired at a fraction of the impact and pollution of replacing them) we should be putting pressure on the manufacturers of these systems and technologies to invest more in finding green solutions to using the polluting chemicals in the construction of turbines.

Less than 15 % of Rwanda's population has access to electricity.

Only a quarter of the population has access to electricity

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Kheterpal says on the Kickstarter page, «In places like Kenya, where 75 % of the population live without access to electricity, having the ability to read at night or charge up a mobile phone gives people the chance of a better education and also access to services like the revolutionary mobile phone banking system, M - PESA.»

Myanmar has one of the lowest electrification rates in Asia, with more than 60 % of the population without access to a modern form of electricity, denying people the ability to work, weakening health and safety, education, and limiting the opportunity to rise out of poverty.

Recently, China has shown how coal can play a critical role in lifting people out of energy poverty — out of the total population of 1.3 billion, only three million do not have access to electricity in China today.

MW: Well, I don't know about intimidate, but I think we have to recognise that what's on the checklist of a mayor in a city where a third of the population don't yet have access to electricity, or at least a form of electricity, and maybe 10 - 20 % are living in slum housing, trying to save the world for the benefit of future generations isn't top of mind.

Over 700 million people — twice the population of the USA and Canada combined — rarely or never have access to the lifesaving, prosperity - creating benefits of electricity, notes Cudjoe.

Secondary school education was available to 95 % of the population only in 37 out of 117 countries, and out of the 151 countries in the sample, there were only 59 where 95 % of the people had access to electricity.

In a world where up to half of the population either has no access to electricity whatsoever, or only severely limited access, a home energy device powered by humans could have a big impact in the developing world, and one philanthropist is willing to put his money where his mouth is in order to potentially change the lives of billions.

Sub-Saharan Africa has 13 % of the world's population, but a whopping 48 % of the global population is without access to electricity.