|**Table 4. Infrastructure Access**||SSA|SA|**Region**<br>MENA|LAC|EAP|LIC|**Income**<br>LMC|UMC|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|**Electricity**||||||||||
|Total|1990|14|65|94|87|87|10|29|73|
|_percent of population(median)_|2014|35|76|92|95|94|23|45|89|
|Urban|1990|50|95|97|99|96|44|67|99|
|_percent of population(median)_|2014|63|96|98|98|99|62|83|98|
|Rural|1990|1|42|90|69|86|1|8|28|
|_percent of population(median)_|2014|19|72|78|85|91|8|18|67|
|**Safe Water Sources**||||||||||
|Total|1990|51|69|92|86|84|48|59|91|
|_percent of population(median)_|2015|77|93|96|94|96|77|76|93|
|Rural|1990|39|64|84|68|77|36|52|83|
|_percent of population(median)_|2015|67|92|92|87|93|67|57|81|
|**Improved Sanitation Facilities**||||||||||
|Total|1990|15|20|77|66|72|11|27|71|
|_percent of population(median)_|2015|29|55|92|83|85|21|30|66|
|Urban|1990|34|58|93|79|79|27|52|79|
|_percent of population(median)_|2015|38|73|96|87|88|38|37|70|
|Rural|1990|9|5|65|38|64|7|18|64|
|_percent of population(median)_|2015|25|47|82|75|83|16|25|61|
|_Sources: World Bank, World Development indicators._<br>_Note: EAP= East Asia and Pacific; LAC= Latin A_<br>_SSA= Sub-Saharan Africa; LIC=low-income countries_|_merica and_<br>_; LMC= lo_|_the Carib_<br>_wer-mid_|_bean; M_<br>_dle incom_|_ENA= Mi_<br>_e countries;_|_ddle East_<br>_UMC= u_|_and Nor_<br>_pper-midd_|_th Africa_<br>_le income_|_; SA= South_<br>_countries._|_Asia;_|

# **Sub-Saharan Africa’s Infrastructure: A scorecard**

Table 5 depicts a scorecard of Sub-Saharan Africa’s infrastructure gaps in terms of quantity, quality, and access, including the performance scorecard for SSA’s subregions and selected percentiles of the regional distribution of the corresponding infrastructure indicator. The scorecard summarizes the information from the previously described infrastructure variables presented in Tables 2 through 4. It captures the gap between the region, subregion, or percentile of the regional distribution vis-à-vis the top decile of the world excluding countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. This gap is represented by the ratio of the infrastructure measure in SubSaharan Africa vis-à-vis the equivalent measure for the top decile of the rest of the world. In this context, the regions, subregions, and countries in brown (or marked “D”) represent those whose ratio is lower than 0.25— that is, their infrastructure gap is greater than 75 percent. These are the most lagging areas in infrastructure provision. We denote in yellow (or marked “C”) those areas with a ratio between 0.25 and 0.5 (a gap that is greater than 50 percent but lower than 75 percent). Geographic areas with an infrastructure ratio relative to the benchmark between 0.5 and 0.75 are represented in light green (or marked “B”), whereas those with a ratio greater than 0.75 are depicted in dark green (or marked “A”). The last group represents those countries and regions with the smallest gap relative to the benchmark (that is, a gap less than 25 percent).

When looking at the region (as captured by the median across countries in Sub-Saharan Africa) and its different groups classified by income level, all of them (except UMCs) have a gap that exceeds 75 percent _Infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa - 10_