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

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Global electrification has risen steadily since World War II, reaching 73 percent in 2000 and 90 percent in 2019 (the pandemic year of 2020 was the. Even South Africa, by far the best-supplied country south of the Sahara, suffers from frequent blackouts. first year in decades when the rate did not go up).