Quantifying the global sustainable energy access gap amongst forcibly displaced people

The GPA Secretariat has estimated the number of FDPs without access to sustainable energy worldwide, covering 99 million displaced people across 104 countries. Click here to read the report.

Highlights

Worldwide deficit: 37 million FDPs lack access to electricity and 50 million FDPs lack access to clean cooking.

Disproportionately affected: FDPs represent 1.4% of the global population but 5.6% of the people without electricity and 2.5% without clean cooking worldwide.

More support needed: 71% of FDPs live in low income countries but these host 99% of FDPs without access to electricity and 97% of FDPs without clean cooking.

 

The estimated number and distribution of FDPs without access to electricity and clean cooking. 

The proportion of FDPs without access to electricity and clean cooking (dark blue) compared with the rates across the hosting countries of this analysis (light blue) and worldwide (purple).

 

This means that FDPs represent a disproportionately large share of the worldwide energy access deficit. The 117 million FDPs around the world represent:

1.4% of the global population (8.2 billion)

5.7% of the global population without electricity (666 million)

2.5% of the global population without clean cooking (2.1 billion).

In the hosting countries, FDPs are around more than twice as likely to lack electricity access than the national average, and around 15% more likely to lack clean cooking. 

Cumulatively, the number of FDPs without access is similar in scale to some of the highest national access deficits. The total number of FDPs without electricity worldwide would be the fourth-largest national deficit and those without clean cooking would be the ninth-largest national deficit.

 

Caption: The ten largest national electricity deficits (blue) and the number of FDPs worldwide without access to electricity (yellow). In total, FDPs would represent the fourth-largest national electricity deficit and the ninth-largest national clean cooking deficit.