Sustainable energy for all
Sustainable energy for all
Data from the SE4ALL Database via TidyTuesday.
Scrollytelling visualisation by Nicola Rennie.
The Sustainable Energy for all (SE4ALL) initiative, launched in 2010 by the UN Secretary General, established three global objectives to be accomplished by 2030: to ensure universal access to modern energy services, to double the global rate of improvement in global energy efficiency, and to double the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.
The data used in these examples is from 2010.
How to read this chart
Each dot represents a different country. It shows the percentage of the population in urban and rural areas with access to non-solid fuel like natural gas, LPG, electricity, and ethanol.
Many countries have the same value of 5% or 95%.
Many values equal to the same round number can be suspicious. We may choose to collapse the stacked points down.
The diameter of the arcs represents the percentage of the population with access to non-solid fuels, i.e., the same as the x-axis values.
Making the lines semi-transparent helps to see where there are more countries with the same value.
The white lines show the median across all countries included in the dataset.
Rural areas
The median percentage of the population with access to non-solid fuels in rural areas is 61%.
37 countries (including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Dem. Rep., Congo, Rep., Cote d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Gambia, The, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Kenya, Korea, Dem. Rep., Lao PDR, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Niger, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia) had the minimum percentage with just 5% of the rural population able to access non-solid fuels.
Two countries (Grenada and St. Lucia) had the maximum percentage with 100% of the rural population able to access non-solid fuels.
Urban areas
The median percentage of the population with access to non-solid fuels in urban areas is 95%.
10 countries (including Burundi, Central African Republic, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Madagascar, Mali, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Somalia) had the minimum percentage with just 5% of the urban population able to access non-solid fuels.
As with rural areas, Grenada and St. Lucia had the maximum percentage with 100% of the urban population able to access non-solid fuels.
Biggest difference
The Marshall Islands had the biggest difference between urban (92%) and rural (8%) areas.
No areas had higher access in rural areas.
