World Bank reveals the high number of Nigerians without access to electricity

• A World Bank study has posted Nigeria arsenic having the highest fig of radical without electricity, marking the 3rd consecutive twelvemonth it holds this presumption
• Sub-Saharan Africa remains the portion with the astir important energy entree gaps, accounting for 85% of the planetary colonisation without power
• The study besides highlighted that the 20 nations with the astir important energy entree gaps present correspond 76% of the planetary deficit

Legit.ng writer Victor Enengedi has implicit a decade's acquisition covering Energy, MSMEs, Technology, Banking and the Economy.

A 2025 World Bank study has highlighted that Nigeria has the highest fig of radical without entree to electricity, with 86.8 cardinal individuals affected.

This marks the 3rd consecutive twelvemonth Nigeria has been ranked astatine the bottommost successful planetary entree to electricity.

Nigeria tops planetary database of countries with highest fig of radical without electricity
Source: UGC

The report, titled “Tracking Sustainable Development Goal 7: The Energy Progress Report 2025,” revealed that 18 of the apical 20 countries with the weakest entree to energy are successful Sub-Saharan Africa.

According to the findings, 61% of Nigeria's colonisation had entree to electricity, portion lone 26% had entree to cleanable cooking vigor successful 2023.

The study besides noted that the 20 countries with the largest energy entree gaps accounted for 76% of the planetary deficit, up from 75% successful 2022.

Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo (79.6 million), and Ethiopia (56.4 million) were the apical 3 countries successful presumption of the largest energy entree deficits, collectively contributing to astir a 3rd of the planetary deficit.

The study pointed retired that South Sudan had the lowest nationalist entree complaint astatine 5%, followed by Chad and Burundi astatine 12%.

In Sub-Saharan Africa, though 35 cardinal radical gained entree to energy successful 2023, accelerated colonisation maturation offset overmuch of this progress, with the region's wide entree spread narrowing by lone 5 cardinal people.

This led to the portion accounting for 85% of the planetary colonisation without electricity.

The World Bank further noted that portion Sub-Saharan Africa has made minimal progress, regions specified arsenic Central and Southern Asia person seen important improvements.

Between 2020 and 2023, these regions reduced their energy entree spread from 414 cardinal to conscionable 27 million.

Despite these strides, the World Bank emphasised that Sub-Saharan Africa requires a importantly faster gait of advancement to execute cosmopolitan energy entree goals.

Looking up to 2030, the World Bank emphasised that though planetary efforts person reduced the fig of radical without energy by 665 cardinal since 2010, 645 cardinal radical are inactive projected to deficiency entree by 2030.

However, the International Energy Agency (IEA) expects that immoderate countries connected way to execute near-universal entree could adjacent the spread with the close policies.

Nigeria Tops Global List of Countries With Highest Number of People Without Electricity
Source: Twitter

Companies dump nationalist grid amid tariff hikes

Meanwhile, Legit.ng earlier reported that arsenic energy tariffs successful Nigeria proceed to increase, galore businesses, acquisition institutions, and households are abandoning the nationalist grid successful favour of self-generated power.

More than 400 large companies, including Flour Mills of Nigeria and MTN, person opted to make their ain electricity, surpassing the grid's capacity.

In effect to rising energy costs, a increasing fig of individuals and businesses are turning to star powerfulness to trim their vigor expenses.

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Source: Legit.ng