think: act STUDY "Inside Africa" - Roland Berger

Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
energy
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Total energy consumption per capita (quadrillion Btu per capita)
The average African has access to only about 1/10 the
energy a European consumer does. While South Asia
increased its energy consumption over the past 20
years to the African average, Sub-Saharan Africa needs
to reverse a declining trend.
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Imagine a world where you cannot not turn on the lights with
a mere flick of the switch or charge your mobile phone regularly.
What if you had to spend hours a day searching for firewood so
that you could cook food, heat your home and have light when the
sun goes down?
In Sub-Saharan Africa, energy poverty is an everyday reality for
millions of homes and businesses. The region is among the most
energy-deprived in the world, annually consuming about 19 million
Btu 31 per capita of energy, or only about 25% of the world average.
Take away South Africa and the consumption figure is just 5 million
Btu per capita per year and only 26% of households have
electricity at all 33 .
So far, the lack of reliable energy sources has only slowed
economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa; it has not stalled it.
Despite this deadweight, the region experienced some of the
highest growth in the world over the past decade. As the region's
economies become more sophisticated, energy access will take
center stage as a necessity for continued growth. As economies
Africa SSA Europe
Middle East World South Asia South America
Source: EIA, US Dept of Energy
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0.10
0.05
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1990 1995 2000 2005 2010