Rural electricity | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 01/07/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
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00:01:20 1 Social and Economic Benefits
00:01:31 1.1 Education
00:02:28 1.2 Productivity &amp; Efficiency
00:03:05 1.3 Job Creation
00:03:49 1.4 Healthcare Improvements
00:04:50 1.5 Additional Benefits
00:05:17 2 Technology
00:06:43 3 National Initiatives by Continent
00:06:54 3.1 Africa
00:07:03 3.1.1 Senegal
00:09:01 3.2 The Americas
00:09:10 3.2.1 Brazil
00:10:14 3.2.2 The United States of America
00:15:24 3.2.3 Jamaica
00:17:17 3.3 Asia
00:17:25 3.3.1 China
00:18:59 3.3.2 India
00:21:31 3.4 Europe
00:21:40 3.4.1 Ireland
00:22:42 4 Successful Examples
00:22:52 4.1 Gram Oorja
00:24:23 4.2 G.R.I.D. (Grassroots and Rural Innovative Development)
00:25:54 5 See also



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Rural electrification is the process of bringing electrical power to rural and remote areas. Rural communities are suffering from colossal market failures as the national grids fall short of their demand for electricity. As of 2017, over 1 billion people worldwide lack household electric power - 14% of the global population.  Electrification typically begins in cities and towns and gradually extends to rural areas, however, this process often runs into road blocks in developing nations. Expanding the national grid is expensive and countries consistently lack the capital to grow their current infrastructure. Additionally, amortizing capital costs to reduce the unit cost of each hook-up is harder to do in lightly populated areas (yielding higher per capita share of the expense). If countries are able to overcome these obstacles and reach nationwide electrification, rural communities will be able to reap considerable amounts of economic and social development. 

This graph shows the world rural electrification rate along with the electrification growth rate from 1990-2016 and synthesizes data from the World Bank