Editing Electrification (section)

==Current extent of electrification==
[[File:Access to Electricity.svg|thumb|upright=1.2|right|World map showing the percentage of the population in each country with access to [[mains electricity]], as of 2017.<ref name="el-access">{{cite web |title=Access to electricity (% of population) |url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/eg.Elc.Accs.Zs |website=Data |publisher=The World Bank |access-date=5 October 2019 |archive-date=16 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170916153704/https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS |url-status=live }}</ref>
{{legend|#005ce6|80%–100%}}
{{legend|#1ba87c|60%–80%}}
{{legend|#7bed00|40%–60%}}
{{legend|#f0b411|20%–40%}}
{{legend|#c2523c|0–20%}}]]
While electrification of cities and homes has existed since the late 19th century, about 840 million people (mostly in Africa) had no access to grid electricity in 2017, down from 1.2 billion in 2010.<ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.wri.org/blog/2019/08/closing-sub-saharan-africa-electricity-access-gap-why-cities-must-be-part-solution |title=Closing Sub-Saharan Africa's Electricity Access Gap: Why Cities Must Be Part of the Solution |date=14 August 2019 |access-date=2019-11-26 |archive-date=2019-12-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191219114347/https://www.wri.org/blog/2019/08/closing-sub-saharan-africa-electricity-access-gap-why-cities-must-be-part-solution |url-status=live |last1=Odarno |first1=Lily |journal=World Resources Institute }}</ref>

Vast gains in electrification were seen in the 1970s and 1980s—from 49% of the world's population in 1970 to 76% in 1990.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/resources/energydevelopment/ |title=IEA - Energy Access |work=worldenergyoutlook.org |access-date=2013-05-30 |archive-date=2013-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531115817/http://www.worldenergyoutlook.org/resources/energydevelopment/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=From ac¸aı´ to access: distributed electrification in rural Brazil |author=Hisham Zerriffi |journal=International Journal of Energy Sector Management |volume=2 |issue=1 |date=2008 |pages=90–117 |issn=1750-6220 |doi=10.1108/17506220810859114 |url=http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/22196/From_Acai_to_Access_(Published_Version).pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610193847/http://iis-db.stanford.edu/pubs/22196/From_Acai_to_Access_%28Published_Version%29.pdf |archive-date=2015-06-10 |publisher=Emerald Group Publishing}}</ref> By the early 2010s, 81–83% of the world's population had access to electricity.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trust.org/item/20130531145822-jlky7/?source=hpeditorial |title=Population growth erodes sustainable energy gains - UN report |publisher=Thomson Reuters Foundation |work=trust.org |access-date=2013-06-17 |archive-date=2014-11-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141110210145/http://www.trust.org/item/20130531145822-jlky7/?source=hpeditorial |url-status=live }}</ref>

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