Stats
Economic Numbers
Electricity
- 1.5 billion globally have no access in 2010
- 1.3 billion projected in 2030
- 25% of Africa has access to electricity
- 15% of rural households in SSA have access (http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/ict/statistics/material/Africa_Village_ICT_2007.pdf)
Literacy
Mobile Phones
see mobile
Visual Disability
- http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs282/en/
- About 314 million people are visually impaired worldwide, 45 million of them are blind.
- Most people with visual impairment are older, and females are more at risk at every age, in every part of the world.
- About 87% of the world's visually impaired live in developing countries.
