Rural & Urban

Energy in Rural and Urban Communities

Having access to affordable and clean energy in rural communities and urban communities differs greatly. A rural community is an area that is outside of a main part of a city or town, while an urban community is an area that is surrounded by high population density and is usually around or inside cities or towns. Information distributed from "The World Bank", shows that some countries have a evenly spread out ratio of rural to urban areas that have access to electricity. The article says that international statistics classify having access to energy as "having an electricity source that can provide very basic lighting, and charge a phone or power a radio for 4 hours per day". The ratio for rural to urban countries that have access to electricity differed, with some countries like Bolivia having a ratio of 87.8% : 99.9. Some other countries though, had ratios like 17.3% : 65.3% (Benin). These countries that had rural areas with barely any people with access to electricity and urban areas with significantly higher percentage of people with access to electricity is what SDG 7 is focusing on.

Wide Perspective

While rural areas may be an area that needs a lot more help in access to renewable resources, they aren't the only ones. Organizations working towards SDG 7 also help people living in urban areas. This is sometimes easier to do because they don't have to invest a lot of money into planning trips to other countries and rural areas that don't have energy. Companies and organizations are focused on both urban communities that need energy and rural communities, because if SDG 7 is to be achieved, both areas need to have a clean and inexpensive source of energy by 2030.

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