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Africa’s Electricity-Access Problem Is Worse Than You Think

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For purposes of comparison with rates in affluent countries I will leave out the top per capita consumers (from Iceland’s 50,000 kilowatt-hours per year to Canada’s 14,000 kWh/year). All too obviously, real access to electricity in large parts of Africa is akin to where the United States was during the late 1890s.