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Almost all houses are now connected to a power grid and they often have light at night.","They are in the dark about the rapid global electrification."," Source: The Energy Progress Report","\nRoughly 90% of the world’s population had some access to the electricity grid in their countries in 2022 according to The Energy Progress Report, which tracks the progress of SDG 7 [1].\n\nThe term “access” is defined differently in all their underlying sources. In some extreme cases, households may experience an average of 60 power outages per week and still be listed as “having access to electricity”. The question, accordingly, talks about “some” access. \n\nGlobal averages hide regional differences. In many areas, basically everyone has access to electricity, while in Sub-Saharan Africa only 51% of the population does[1]. It is also much more common to have access to some electricity in cities where, worldwide, 98% have electricity, compared to those living in the countryside where only 84% have access to electricity.\n\n[1]  [The Energy Progress Report (collaboration between World Bank, International Energy Agency, the WHO, UN and International Renewable Energy Agency)](https:\u002F\u002Ftrackingsdg7.esmap.org\u002Fresults)\n[2]  [LSMS Survey Nigeria, 2019](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nigerianstat.gov.ng\u002Fpdfuploads\u002FLSMS_Integrated_Panel_Survey_Report.pdf)\n[3]  We consulted four independent experts about this question, including Philip Sandwell of Imperial College London.","The world is much more developed than most people realize. It happened during the past 50 years. Now, 90% of people have access to electricity. A world where 100% of people have electricity is no longer beyond imagination. \nBut having some access doesn't mean you have power all day. In Nigeria for example, there are so many outages that even the households connected to the grid only have power 5 hours a day, on average.\n\n### Why are people wrong about this?\nWhen we think of poorer countries and villages we often underestimate the development in these places, not only for electricity. \n\n### Why is it a problem that people are wrong about this?\nIf we wrongly think most poor people don't have any access to electricity today, we have missed the great progress since the 1990s and might think it's unachievable to help everyone get access to electricity. \n\n### Why is it important that everyone has electricity?\nYou have probably always lived in a home with a fridge and you could always turn the light on in the evening. The enormous value of bringing electricity to a poor village can be hard to realize if you have never experienced the alternative.\nImagine taking care of your ill children or doing your homework in the dark, washing your clothes without a washing machine, cooking over an open fire or not being able to store food in a fridge. The list goes on and on.\n\n### What exactly do you mean by “some access to electricity”? \nWhile around 90% of the world’s population had some access to electricity in 2022, not all access is equal. \nThere are varying definitions of “access” and in some extreme cases households may experience an average of 60 power outages per week and still be counted as having access to electricity. \n\n### Where can I learn more?\nGapminder Tools: See how rapidly [access to electricity](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Ftools\u002F#$model$markers$bubble$encoding$y$data$concept=eg_elc_accs_zs&source=wdi&space@=country&=time;;&scale$domain:null&zoomed:null&type:null;;&frame$value=2021;;;;;&chart-type=bubbles&url=v1) for countries has increased since 1990. \n\nDollar Street: Browse [light sources](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Fdollar-street\u002F?topic=light-sources) in homes on different income levels from all over the world. \n\nDollar Street: Browse [power outlets sources](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Fdollar-street\u002F?topic=power-outlets) in homes on different income levels from all over the world. \n\nGoogle Earth at Night: [See how the electricity glows at night where people live](https:\u002F\u002Fearth.google.com\u002Fweb\u002F@31.01028449,78.35493581,7855.81660171a,14335808.43559742d,35y,0h,0t,0r\u002Fdata=CiQSIhIgMGY3ZTJkYzdlOGExMTFlNjk5MGQ2ZjgxOGQ2OWE2ZTc)\n","Enlightening","Enlightenment","This question was originally tested with slightly different answer options in multiple countries. When we first tested this question the data said that around 90% was the correct answer but we rounded down to \"More than 80%\" to avoid overestimating the correct answer. Since then, access to electricity around the world has kept increasing and the data shows the global figure for electricity access is over 90%, so we decided that to change the correct answer to \"Around 90%\". To avoid losing results from all of the countries we tested this question in and because the new correct answer is still in line with the previous one we decided to keep the old results.\n\nThe original answer options used were:\n\nA. Less than 20% (Very wrong)\nB. Around 50% (Wrong)\nC. More than 80% (Correct)"]