Editing Economy of Papua New Guinea (section)

====Access to electricity====
By 2017, only 50.42%  of the rural population had access to electricity.<ref>{{cite web |last1=World Bank |title=Sustainable Energy for All ( SE4ALL ) database from the SE4ALL Global Tracking Framework |url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.ELC.ACCS.RU.ZS?locations=PG&view=chart |publisher=World Bank |access-date=5 May 2020}}</ref>
80.23% of the urban population in 2017 had access to electricity.<ref name="World Bank">{{cite web |url=https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/bitstream/handle/10986/33044/9781464814693.pdf |title=Global Economic Prospects, January 2020 : Slow Growth, Policy Challenges |page=68 |publisher=[[World Bank]] |website=openknowledge.worldbank.org |access-date=10 January 2020}}</ref> Limitations in the transmission and distribution infrastructure lead to frequent outages in urban centers.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Asian Development Bank |title=Pacific Energy Update 2019 |date=2019 |journal=Asian Development Bank |page=19 |url=https://www.adb.org/documents/pacific-energy-update-2019 |access-date=5 May 2020}}</ref>