The number of peoplewithout access to electricity in Nigeria is put at 86.8 million, the highest world-wide, says a World Bank 2025 report.
This is third consecutive year of this report showing Nigeria in the lowest position globally.
The report, released yesterday, which covers 2023 and titled: Tracking Sustainable Development Goal, SDG7: The energy progress report 2025, also showed that out of the top 20 countries with weakest access 18 were from Sub-Saharan Africa.
The World Bank report further noted that 61 percent of the Nigerian population had access to electricity and 26 percent had access to clean cooking energy in 2023.