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Myanmar has a total electrification rate of just 26%.
Yangon has an electrification rate of 67% while in "rural areas" the average ratio is only 16%.
In sub-Saharan Africa, the report notes, the electrification rate is 31 percent, and 80 percent of people rely on biomass for cooking.
Specifically, it sets goals to increase hydropower capacity from 2000 MW to 10,000 MW, double the number of electricity customers, and raise the national electrification rate to 75%.
In its 2011 analysis of humanity's electricity gap (the latest one that's freely accessible), the International Energy Agency estimated that 1.3 billion people still lack access to electricity, with Asia just ahead of Africa in numbers living in the dark, but Africa with a much higher proportion lacking this vital resource (a 41.8 percent electrification rate) compared to Asia (81 percent).
However, figures show significant differences in the electrification rate between different groups.
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Coal-rich states such as Odisha, Bihar and Jharkhand still have some of the lowest electrification rates in the country.
Ghana's current low electrification rates are detrimental to economic growth and development.
International Energy Agency IEAA) data for 2009 point out that electrification rates for Nigeria stood at 50%%.
The electrification rates for the entire country in 2011 was 45%% leaving almost 79 million people without electricity [11].
Otsuka [2] analyses the efficiency of residential energy demand in Japan, focusing on population agglomeration and electrification rates as determinants of residential energy efficiency, and shows that residential energy efficiency is high in population agglomeration areas.
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