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Country<br />
Table I.1<br />
LATIN AMERICA (SELECTED COUNTRIES): ESTIMATE OF POPULATION<br />
WITHOUT ELECTRIC POWER<br />
(Thousands of pers<strong>on</strong>s and percentages)<br />
Poor without electric<br />
power (thousands of<br />
pers<strong>on</strong>s)<br />
N<strong>on</strong>-poor without<br />
electric power<br />
(thousands of<br />
pers<strong>on</strong>s)<br />
Total without electric<br />
power (thousands<br />
of pers<strong>on</strong>s)<br />
Percentages of poor<br />
without electric<br />
power<br />
Argentina 57 91 148 38<br />
Bolivia<br />
(Plurinati<strong>on</strong>al State of) 2 904 708 3 611 80<br />
Brazil 5 123 2 753 7 875 65<br />
Chile 62 168 231 27<br />
Colombia 4<str<strong>on</strong>g>20</str<strong>on</strong>g> 956 1 376 31<br />
Costa Rica 34 18 52 66<br />
Ecuador 51 15 66 77<br />
El Salvador 751 191 942 80<br />
Guatemala 2 569 687 3 256 79<br />
H<strong>on</strong>duras 2 272 210 2 482 92<br />
Nicaragua 1 377 219 1 596 86<br />
Paraguay 510 75 585 87<br />
Peru 5 264 1 982 7 245 73<br />
Venezuela<br />
(Bolivarian Republic of) 16 19 35 46<br />
Total 21 410 8 092 29 501 73<br />
Source: Ec<strong>on</strong>omic Commissi<strong>on</strong> for Latin America and <strong>the</strong> Caribbean (ECLAC)/United Nati<strong>on</strong>s Development Programme<br />
(UNDP)/Club de Madrid/German Agency for Technical Cooperati<strong>on</strong> (GTZ), “C<strong>on</strong>tribución de los servicios energéticos<br />
a los Objetivos de Desarrollo del Milenio y a la mitigación de la pobreza en América Latina y el Caribe. Síntesis<br />
ejecutiva”, Project documents, No. 281 (LC/W.281), Santiago, Chile, October <str<strong>on</strong>g>20</str<strong>on</strong>g>09.<br />
Note:<br />
The estimate is calculated <strong>on</strong> <strong>the</strong> basis of <strong>the</strong> latest poverty records for Latin America and <strong>the</strong> Caribbean, and is applied<br />
to <strong>the</strong> total populati<strong>on</strong> of each country for which informati<strong>on</strong> is available. The estimate of <strong>the</strong> number of households<br />
lacking electric power is <strong>the</strong>n applied to this figure.<br />
Box I.1<br />
THE LUZ PARA TODOS PROGRAMME IN BRAZIL<br />
Taking up <strong>the</strong> challenge of providing milli<strong>on</strong>s of Brazilian citizens in <strong>the</strong> rural areas with access to electricity, <strong>the</strong><br />
Federal Government of Brazil launched <strong>the</strong> programme Luz para todos in <str<strong>on</strong>g>20</str<strong>on</strong>g>03. The objective was to provide<br />
electric power to 10 milli<strong>on</strong> rural inhabitants by <str<strong>on</strong>g>20</str<strong>on</strong>g>10 at no installati<strong>on</strong> cost for <strong>the</strong> beneficiaries. By May <str<strong>on</strong>g>20</str<strong>on</strong>g>09, two<br />
milli<strong>on</strong> hook-ups, benefiting 10 milli<strong>on</strong> people, had already been made. Thanks to this programme, 40.7% of <strong>the</strong><br />
beneficiary families enjoy better opportunities for study, 34.2% have better working opportunities, 35.6% earn a<br />
better income and 22.1% have access to better health care.<br />
Source: Ministry of Mines and Energy of Brazil, “Luz para todos: Un marco histórico. 10 mill<strong>on</strong>es de brasileños salier<strong>on</strong> de la<br />
oscuri<strong>da</strong>d. Programa luz para todos” [<strong>on</strong>line] http://luzparatodos.mme.gov.br/luzparatodos/Asp/publicacoes.asp, <str<strong>on</strong>g>20</str<strong>on</strong>g>10.