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An estimated 79 percent of the people in the Third World-- the 50 poorest nations -- have no access to electricity, despite decades of international development work. The total number of individuals without electric power is put at about 1.5 billion, or a quarter of the world's population, concentrated mostly in Africa and southern Asia. The 1.5 billion figure represents an improvement over previous years, but not because of any concerted effort to expand power connections.
Most recent progress in electrification took place between the 1950s and 1980s. Vast gains were seen in the 1970s and 1980s-from 49 percent of the world's population in 1970 to 76 percent in 1990. Recent gains have been more modest-by the early 2010s 81 to 83 percent of the world's population had access to electricity.