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Appreciate the led gu10 bulbs you have access to as it has recently emerged that one quarter of the world’s population lives without any access to electricity or modern fuels in general.

The United Nations Development Programme released statistics revealing 1.5 billion people live without any electric power. An estimated 79% of people in the Third World (which comprises the world’s 50 poorest nations) have no access to modern fuels, such as natural gas, propane, or kerosene. These nations rely upon charcoal or wood as their principal sources of energy which is detrimental to their health and is also inefficient. To raise billions out of poverty, these nations must be provided with electricity.

These populations without energy are mostly concentrated in southern Asia and Africa. Some of the statistics truly do shock. In eleven African countries, 90% of the population has no electricity, and in six of these, (Burundi, Chad, Central African Republic, Liberia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone) just 3 to 5% of the population has access to electric power.