{"id":53901,"date":"2025-04-16T15:21:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T15:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-s-electricity-access-increases-by-more-than-double-reaching-72\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T22:19:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T22:19:38","slug":"rwanda-s-electricity-access-increases-by-more-than-double-reaching-72","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-s-electricity-access-increases-by-more-than-double-reaching-72\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda’s electricity access increases by more than double, reaching 72%"},"content":{"rendered":"

The report details that 50% of households are now connected to the national grid, while 22% utilize solar panels, primarily through standalone solar systems.<\/p>\n

While urban areas experienced an increase in household electricity access from 76% to 88%, the growth in rural areas has been even more substantial. <\/p>\n

Access in rural areas dramatically increased from 24% in 2017 to 65% in 2024. Notably, electricity access has also improved for the lowest economic segment, with 53% of households in the lowest quintile now having access, compared to only 9% in 2017.<\/p>\n

The EICV7 report also provides insights into household electricity usage, indicating that it is most commonly used for lighting and charging mobile phones.<\/p>\n

Regarding cooking methods, the report indicates that a majority of households still rely on traditional fuels. Approximately three-quarters of households use firewood (63%) or straw\/sticks (12%) for cooking, while 24% use charcoal (19%) or other improved methods, mainly bottled gas.<\/p>\n

The survey further examined infrastructure access in Rwanda where ninety-six percent of households are reported to live within 20 minutes of an all-weather road, an increase from 93% in 2017. <\/p>\n

However, the report notes regional disparities, with households in the Western Province having less access to all-weather roads (89%) compared to other regions.<\/p>\n

The survey also indicates that 90% of households have access to an improved source of drinking water, up slightly from 87% in 2017.<\/p>\n

In terms of poverty reduction, the report shows that the poverty rate in Rwanda has decreased to 27.4%, down from 39.8% in 2017. Besides, the population in exteme poverty was 5.4% in 2024, down from a predicted 11.3% in 2017.<\/p>\n

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The National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda (NISR) has revealed a substantial improvement in household access to electricity, from 34% in 2017 to 72% in 2024. These findings are part of the Seventh Integrated Household Living Conditions Survey (EICV7), released on Wednesday, April 16, 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000085798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":{"id":2000085798,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/a8-4-e398b.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/a8-4-e398b.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/a8-4-e398b.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/a8-4-e398b.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/a8-4-e398b.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/a8-4-e398b.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000085798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53901"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53901"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}