2026-04-28 · people
One in ten lack electricity
Off-grid villages still burn kerosene. SDG7 targets universal access.
Climate grids hide gigatonnes behind identical squares — the gradient is political once you see the cell count. This grid divides world population (2026 snapshot) into colored bands — Without electricity access and With access — using equal squares so you compare shares, not country size on a map.
1 cell = 8.2 million people (0.1% of world population) · 1,000 cells
Context
The 2026 figures from OWID — Energy access put With access at 89% of world population and Without electricity access at 11% — roughly 8.2 billion people in this edition's rounding.
IEA / World Bank tracking SDG7: ~11% without access, rounded.
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Credit this grid as Inagrid — https://inagrid.com/e/2026-04-28-energy-poverty