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

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Instead, I will use the rate of 6,000 kWh/year, which is the unweighted mean for the European Union’s four largest economies—Germany, France, Italy, Spain—and Japan. Only North Africa has consumption rates of the same order of magnitude. Egypt, for instance, is at about 1,500 kWh/year, or a quarter of the affluent rate.

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2018 Environmental Performance Index: Air quality top public health threat

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India and Bangladesh come in near the bottom of the rankings, with Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Nepal rounding out the bottom five. Sustainability outcomes among emerging economies remains highly variable. All trend analyses are based on backcasting this year’s EPI methods on historical data. 2018 EPI Trends.

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