Today, one-and-a-half billion people on earth have no access to electricity at all, and a billion more have limited access.

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It results from the 1.6 billion people that do not have any access to electricity whatsoever, the 2.4 billion that have almost no access to electricity and still burn wood and manure as their main source of energy, and the 3 billion new people that will be born by mid-century who will need electricity.

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The very few that exist are simple structures, often without water or even electricity, built by villages that have no means or access to put in the equipment or provide the supplies for a proper clinic.

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Many schools in Sub-Saharan Africa have limited, or no, access to basic services such as drinking water, toilets and electricity.

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Also, the two sides will discuss joint government and U.S. business opportunities for bringing electricity to the estimated 80 million rural Chinese who have no access to electric power.

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