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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.
Assume a charge of 90 kyat/kWh for unsubsidized electricity delivered to homes. There were 2.2 million homes with electricity in 2010-11, so let us assume 2.5 million now. If half of all. electrified households or 1.25 million were using no more than 365 kWh a year, then a maximum of 456.