Mapping Access to Electricity with Global Open Data (SDG Indicator 7.1.1)
- Project leader:
- Chen, Robert
- Project members:
- Gibson, James
- Pistolesi, Linda
Description
Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report estimated that in 2019, 759 million people around the world lacked access to electricity. Due to current policies and the effects of the COVID-19 crisis, it is predicted that by 2030, 660 million people will still not have access to electricity, with a majority of these people residing in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 is to "ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all." As one measure of progress, the UN has established SDG indicator 7.1.1 : "Proportion of population with access to electricity."
This knowledge package includes resources related to the production of a data set presenting SDG indicator 7.1.1 for 206 countries and 46,069 administrative level 2 subnational units, computed using global open data sources. Production of the data set was completed in support of the Population and Infrastructure on Our Human Planet project, part of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) Human Planet Initiative (HPI).
The methodology employed was informed by both Falchetta et al. (2020) and the official UN SDG indicator metadata acquired from the SDG Indicators Metadata Repository.
- Indicator 7.1.1: Proportion of population with access to electricity (version updated 2022-03-31)