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capacity, countries need to look beyond borders to search for viable,
affordable alternatives.
We investigated the per capita electricity production, observing that 10
countries have experience production grown more than 4 folds (Table 2):
leading the way is Burundi (almost 30 times of growth of electricity production
per capital in 2015 compared to 1980), followed by Benin (21 times), Cape
Verde (16 times), Mali (8 times), Sudan (6 times), Ethiopia (5 times), Equatorial
Guinea, Mauritania, Seychelles, and Mauritius (4 times).

Table 2. Growth of electricity generation per capita, 1980 to 2015.
Country Electricity Electricity generation Growth, 1980-
generation per per capita, 2015 2015
capita, 1980 (kWh) (kWh)
Burundi 0.73 22.55 2,994%
Benin 1.34 29.46 2,090%
Cape Verde 52.33 866.94 1,557%
Mali 14.53 124.51 757%
Sudan 47.91 328.23 585%
Ethiopia 18.46 103.54 460%
Equatorial Guinea 66.58 361.58 443%
Mauritania 58.02 306.53 428%
Seychelles 709.01 3701.73 422%
Mauritius 456.51 2268.46 397%
… … … …
Mozambique 1144.47 698.97 - 39%
Togo 18.38 10.62 - 42%
Zambia 1557.42 825.11 - 47%
Sierra Leone 55.86 24.18 - 57%
Liberia 451.20 66.67 - 85%
Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration; United Nations Population Division.

From Figure 1 we can see contrasting geographical trends in different
regions: countries with smaller land cover areas, as well as North African and
the Sahel countries (shown in darker blues), are generally faring well to elevate
their production intensity. On the other hands, some notable West and
Southern-Central African countries (shown in red) have experienced major
difficulty in meeting the energy demands of their respective populations.
Many of these slowing growing countries are neighbouring energy rich, fast
growers. Regional electricity trade is not only possible but should be put as a
priority. The enhanced collaboration and sharing through regional power
pools might provide a timely and long-lasting solution.
Since 1950, major efforts have been put into developing regional power
pools through bilateral and multilateral agreements. There are five major
power pools in Africa now: Central African Power Pool (CAPP), Eastern Africa
Power Pool (EAPP), Comité Maghrébin de l’Electricité (COMELEC), Southern

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