Africa-Press – Mozambique. Mozambique is among the 20 countries with the greatest deficit in access to energy in the world, with around 22 million of the country’s 30 million inhabitants living without electricity, the United Nations (UN) indicates in the 2023 edition of Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report.
“Mozambique has 22 million people without electricity,” the organisation says in a summary consulted by Lusa on Thursday, adding that the “lack of access to electricity will persist without investment in renewable sources”.
Mozambique is joined by Angola, which has around 18 million people without electricity, according to the United Nations.
The UN suggests the use of renewable energies as a way to overcome the energy crisis, noting that Brazil is among the countries with the highest percentage of renewable sources in use (46%).
The 2023 Energy Progress Report indicates that about 675 million of the planet’s inhabitants live without electricity, noting that the “growing debt of countries and rising energy prices are worsening the prospects for universal access to electricity”.
For the UN, this is an impediment to the fulfilment of the seventh Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) – the organisation’s list of 17 goals in the improvement of living conditions worldwide – which proposes access to electricity for all by 2030.
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