OVER 32 percent of the households in Tanzania mainland were connected to electricity by 2016, the 2016 Energy Access Situation Survey has revealed.
The report, which has been released by
the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), was produced out of information
collected on connectivity of electricity to the main dwelling of
household.
On rural-urban differentials, the report
reveals that the connection of electricity to urban dwellings in 2016
was higher to 65.3 percent than that of rural households, which was 16.9
percent.
Moreover, urban dwellers who were not
connected to electricity counted 34.7 percent while in rural areas the
dwellers count up to 83.1 percent.
Furthermore, the survey identified Dar es Salaam with the highest proportion of household connected to electricity.
The region’s dwellers who are connected
to electricity of any form count to 75.2 percent.Other regions include
Njombe (50.5 percent), Kilimanjaro (42.6 percent) and Katavi (40
percent).
Regions which had proportions of
households less than 20 percent connected to electricity include Rukwa
(8.7 percent), Simiyu (11.5 percent), Shinyanga (12.8 percent), Geita
(14.0 percent), Songwe (15.9 percent) and Kigoma (16.2 percent).
Apart from Dar es Salaam Region, which
is purely urban, Rukwa Region was severely affected since only 3.3
percent of its rural households were connected to the electricity in
2016. Regions that had below 10 percent of their rural households
connected to electricity were Songwe (6 percent), Kigoma (6.7 percent),
Shinyanga (7.0 percent), Simiyu (9.3 percent) and Manyara (9.7 percent).
The situation is different for urban
areas since the dwellings that connected to the electricity ranged from
26.6 percent for Rukwa Region to 88.7 percent for Kagera Region.
However, the report explained that there has been an increasing pace of
electricity connection especially in rural areas.
The survey attributed the improvement to
the establishment of the Rural Energy Agency (REA). The government is
currently implementing a national energy policy whose goal is to
increase the country’s overall electricity connectivity to 50 percent by
2025 and to at least 75 percent by 2033.
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