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2009
Rural
areas
Persons using
tradional biomass [mill.]
Urban
areas
Total
Rural
areas
Persons without access
to electricity [mill.]
Urban
areas
Africa 481 176 657 466 121 587
Sub-Saharan Africa 477 176 653 465 120 585
Developing Asia 1,694 243 1,937 716 82 799
China 377 47 423 8 0 8
India 765 90 855 380 23 404
Rest of Asia 553 106 659 328 59 387
Latin America 60 24 85 27 4 31
Developing countries 1) 2,235 444 2,679 1,229 210 1,438
World 2) 2,235 444 2,679 1,232 210 1,441
1) Including Middle East
2) Including OECD and transition economies
Source: IEA [105]
The proportion of energy forms generally described as renewable is particularly large in Africa.
The main reason for this is the traditional use of biomass, though to a large extent this is
not sustainable. Simple forms of cooking and heating result in harmful effects on health due
to open fires, and in many cases they cause irreversible deforestation.
In the developing countries – especially in rural areas – some 2.7 billion people are dependent
entirely on traditional biomass for cooking and heating; this corresponds to about 40 %
of the world’s population. In view of the pace of population growth, the IEA expects this figure
to increase to around 2.8 billion by the year 2030 [105].
In some cases the use of hydropower from large dams is not a sustainable use of renewable
energy either, since they sometimes have serious social and environmental impacts.
WORLD: REgIONAL DIFFERENCES
Total
Renewable Energy Sources in Figures
89