The World Bank has listed Nigeria among the three countries with the largest electricity deficits in the world.

The World Bank has listed Nigeria among the three countries with the largest electricity deficits in the world.

It said during the last decade, a greater share of the global population gained access to electricity than ever before, but the number of people without electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa increased.

The bank disclosed this on Monday in a report, titled Universal access to sustainable energy will remain elusive without addressing inequalities’.

According to the bank, unless efforts are scaled up significantly in countries with the largest deficits, the world would still fall short of ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy by 2030.

Nigeria was also listed among the top 20 countries that lacked access to clean fuel and technologies for cooking.