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| Data: | Access to electricity (% of population) | ||||||||
| Year: | 1960 - 2013 | ||||||||
| Country: | Indonesia | ||||||||
| Source: | World Bank (the information in this section is direct quotation from World Bank development data) | ||||||||
| Series Code: | EG.ELC.ACCS.ZS | ||||||||
| Topic: | Environment: Energy production & use | ||||||||
| Short Definition: | 0 | ||||||||
| Long Definition: | Access to electricity is the percentage of population with access to electricity. Electrification data are collected from industry, national surveys and international sources. | ||||||||
| Unit of Measurement: | 0 | ||||||||
| Periodicity: | Annual | ||||||||
| Base Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Reference Period: | 0 | ||||||||
| Aggregation method: | Weighted average | ||||||||
| Limitations and exceptions: | The general paucity of data on electricity access means that it must be gathered through a combination of sources, including: IEA energy statistics; a network of contacts spanning governments, multilateral development banks and country-level representatives of various international organisations; and, other publicly available statistics, such as US Agency for International Development (USAID) supported DHS survey data, the World Bank's Living Standards Measurement Surveys (LSMS), the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean's (ECLAC) statistical publications, and data from national statistics agencies. In the small number of cases where no data could be provided through these channels other sources were used. If electricity access data for 2010 was not available, data for the latest available year was used. | ||||||||
| Notes from original source: | 0 | ||||||||
| General Comments: | 0 | ||||||||
| Original Source: | International Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook. (IEA Statistics © OECD/IEA, http://www.iea.org/stats/index.asp). | ||||||||
| Statistical concept and methodology: | Data on access to electricity are collected by the IEA from industry, national surveys, and international sources. To estimate the number of people without access, population data comes from OECD statistics in conjunction with the United Nations Population Division reports World Urbanization Prospects: the 2009 Revision Population Database, and World Population Prospects: the 2010 Revision. Electricity access data is adjusted to be consistent with demographic patterns of urban and rural population. Due to differences in definitions and methodology from different sources, data quality may vary from country to country. Where country data appeared contradictory, outdated or unreliable, the IEA Secretariat made estimates based on cross-country comparisons and earlier surveys. | ||||||||
| Development relevance: | Maintaining
reliable and secure electricity services while seeking to rapidly decarbonize
power systems is a key challenge for countries throughout the world. More and
more countries are becoming increasing dependent on reliable and secure
electricity supplies to underpin economic growth and community prosperity.
This reliance is set to grow as more efficient and less carbon intensive
forms of power are developed and deployed to help decarbonize
economies. Energy is necessary for creating the conditions for economic growth. It is impossible to operate a factory, run a shop, grow crops or deliver goods to consumers without using some form of energy. Access to electricity is particularly crucial to human development as electricity is, in practice, indispensable for certain basic activities, such as lighting, refrigeration and the running of household appliances, and cannot easily be replaced by other forms of energy. Individuals' access to electricity is one of the most clear and un-distorted indication of a country's energy poverty status. Electricity access is increasingly at the forefront of governments' preoccupations, especially in the developing countries. As a consequence, a lot of rural electrification programs and national electrification agencies have been created in these countries to monitor more accurately the needs and the status of rural development and electrification. Use of energy is important in improving people's standard of living. But electricity generation also can damage the environment. Whether such damage occurs depends largely on how electricity is generated. For example, burning coal releases twice as much carbon dioxide - a major contributor to global warming - as does burning an equivalent amount of natural gas. |
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