Global population without electricity access 2000-2021, by region

The number of people without access to electricity worldwide has dropped by more than half between 2000 and 2021, amounting to 768 billion in the latter year. The biggest decline was reported in the developing Asian region, whose population without access to electricity dropped by nearly 90 percent in the period. Meanwhile, little change was recorded in Sub-Saharan Africa, which accounted for 78 percent of the global total in 2021.