World Bank Group
Abstract: Goal 7.1 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in 2015 calls for universal access to electricity and to clean cooking fuels and technologies by 2030. Electricity access has progressed farther and faster than access to clean cooking,but even here the momentum has stalled in recent years. In 2019,759 million of the world’s people still lacked access to electric power. The access deficit is concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa,where 570 million people were still without access to electricity. Nearly half of the unserved Africans lived in countries affected by fragility,conflict,and violence (FCV).