Haiti - Social : 7.5 million Haitians are living without electricity
According to a study of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) presented by Fernando César Ferreira, Executive Secretary of the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE), in Latin America, nearly 30 million people are still living without electricity, including at the top 7.5 million in Haiti, followed by Argentina (2.1 million), Bolivia (1.8 million), Brazil (1.7 million), Colombia (1.7 million) and Guatemala (1.6 million) among others...
Fernando César Ferreira, stated that the lack of access to electricity in the most affected countries, is mainly due to lack of infrastructure and not to the cost of energy.
The report indicates that in Latin America the average rate of urban electrification is 99% and 82% in rural area with large imbalance for some countries like Haiti.
Moreover, according to this report, in the Region, 87 million people still cook with charcoal...
