Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report 2019

The world is making progress toward SDG 7 but is not on track to meet 2030 targets at current ambition levels. While electricity access has expanded significantly, particularly in India, Bangladesh, and Kenya, Sub-Saharan Africa still faces a massive deficit. Clean cooking access is lagging due to population growth, and while renewable energy and energy efficiency are improving, they remain below the required rates to meet 2030 goals. Achieving these targets will require a substantial increase in annual investments across all three areas.

• Global electricity access reached 89% in 2017, up from 83% in 2010, though approximately 840 million people still lack access.
• Sub-Saharan Africa has the most significant electricity access gap, with 573 million people lacking access; it is projected that 90% of the 650 million people still without electricity in 2030 will reside there.
• Access to clean cooking solutions increased from 57% in 2010 to 61% in 2017, but population growth has kept the absolute number of people without access at nearly 3 billion.
• India and China represent the largest absolute deficits in clean cooking access, together accounting for 1.3 billion people without such solutions.
• Renewable energy's share of total final energy consumption was 17.5% in 2016, with the fastest growth occurring in electricity consumption, which reached a 24% share.
• Global primary energy intensity improved to 5.1 MJ/USD in 2016, but the rate of improvement is below the SDG 7.3 target of over 2.7% annually, with a further slowdown to 1.3% in 2018.
• To meet SDG 7 targets by 2030, annual average investments must increase to approximately $55 billion for energy access, $700 billion for renewable energy, and $600 billion for energy efficiency.

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@techreport{sustainableenergyforall2019tracking, author = {{Sustainable Energy for All}}, title = {{Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report 2019}}, institution = {Sustainable Energy for All}, year = {2019}, url = {https://www.seforall.org/system/files/2019-05/TrackingSDG7_execsum-2019.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }