After the lights came on Story Night map Explore

The night map

Land glows with the share of people who have electricity. Every dot is one million people who do not. Drag to turn the globe, press play to run the years, click a country to open it.

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1 million people without electricity

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Data: World Bank (CC BY 4.0), UN IGME (CC BY 3.0 IGO), UNESCO UIS (CC BY-SA 4.0), via UN System Data Commons. Base map: Natural Earth. Boundaries do not imply any position on the legal status of any territory. Independent project, not endorsed by the UN. Read the story.