kennedy0000
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Kenya
Electricity access:![]()
population without electricity: 35,400,000
electrification - total population: 20%
electrification - urban areas: 60%
electrification - rural areas: 7% (2013)
Tanzania
Electricity access:![]()
population without electricity: 37,400,000
electrification - total population: 24%
electrification - urban areas: 71%
electrification - rural areas: 4% (2013)
Hahaha. CIA factbook is one of the most inaccurate source of info and predictions.
That said, A lot has happened between 2013 and now in Kenya. Kenya power connection stands at nearly 60%.
And we're doing it faster than the US did their electrification in the 1930s
Kenya’s national electrification campaign is taking less than half the time it took America
Quote from QZ
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In the 1930s, the US embarked on a campaign to connect rural parts of the country to electricity. It took more than two decades before 95% of all farms were electrified. Kenya is working on doing that in just seven years.
Kenya added 1.3 million households to its electricity grid last year, raising the percentage of connected Kenyans to 55%, from just 27% in 2013, when the country’s electrification campaign began in earnest. In another four years, Kenya plans to achieve “universal access” where 95% of homes will have access to electricity. "