There are still 655 million people, or 8 percent of the global population, living without electricity, with the majority in Sub-Saharan Africa, a UN report released on Wednesday showed.
In addition, 1.8 billion people currently use polluting fuels and technologies for cooking, which has put their health and well-being at risk, according to the latest edition of Tracking Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7: The Energy Progress Report.
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