how many people don't have electricity worldwide?
According to IEA (2009) worldwide 1.456 billion people (18% of the world's population) do not have access to electricity, of which 83% live in rural areas. In 1990 around 24 percent of the world's population lacked access to electricity. India was only 43% electrified in 1990 in terms of household access but by 2015 95% of villages had some electric access. In 1979 37% of China's rural population lacked access to electricity entirely. Some 23% of people in East Java, Indonesia, a core region, also lack electricity, as surveyed in 2013.