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An average American consumes about twice as much electricity as a German, about 10 times as much as an Indian, and an incredible 800 times as much as a citizen of Guinea Bissau.
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https://www.bu.edu/eci/files/2021/06/ENRE-5-Ch.-11-Energy-The-Great-Transition.pdf
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The number of people without electricity is almost back to historic highs.The total sum is about to be reaching 760 million.
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https://www.iea.org/reports/sdg7-data-and-projections/access-to-electricity
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A 2020 paper finds that the world’s lowest-income 50% consume less than 20% of all energy, while the richest 10% consume nearly 40% of the world’s energy.
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https://www.bu.edu/eci/files/2021/04/Energy-Economics-and-Policy-2021-ECI-Teaching-Module.pdf
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Around 95 percent of people without access to electricity and non-solid fuels live in sub-Saharan Africa and developing countries in Asia.