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Pakistan Among Top 10 in Access to Electricity: World Bank

The World Index has listed the top countries across the world that have a maximum electricity supply to its citizens.

The indexing has used the data from World Banks’s report released at the end of 2016.

With 99 percent of its population using electricity, Pakistan stands right beside the developed countries like USA, Canada, China, Brazil and other European countries that have 100% power supply.

Pakistan and Columbia have an equal score with 99% of their citizens enjoying access to power.

Interestingly, countries like the Philippines, India, South Africa fall far behind Pakistan, having 91%, 84% and 84% respectively.

Other entries in the list are Mongolia (82%), Bangladesh (76%), Nigeria (59%), Kenya (56%), Ethiopia (42%), Tanzania (33%), Uganda (27%), Niger (16%) and South Sudan (9%).

Via: World Bank

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Rizvi Syed