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Electricity access increased
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This file is part of Gapminder's fact-base. Here's the link to the public share folder
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Updated by Ola Rosling on Dec 8, 2023
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What is the fact
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The amount of people with access to electricity has increased faster than the populaiotn increase.
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See https://www.gapminder.org/facts/few-are-missing-electricity/
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SOURCE
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Access and not access to electricity,
We extrapolate from latest 2021 to 2022, based on linear,
The World Bank has data back to 2000
and before that year we use the change seen in IEA data from 1990, to get a longer seires, and we multiply the annual change to the start of World Bank data.
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Population data since from UN Population Divisions WPP 2022
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https://population.un.org/wpp/
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The WB data comes from household surveys
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https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS
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EIA data (used from 1990 to 2000) is reported production from power companies
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https://www.iea.org/reports/sdg7-data-and-projections/access-to-electricity
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