Lagging energy infrastructure prevents some African countries from cashing in on their critical minerals

Installed energy capacity and electricity access by country

PIIE Table: Design by Nia Kitchin and Oliver Ward
Notes: Frontier and developing Asia: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. Source: Cullen Hendrix's Working Paper, Building downstream capacity for critical minerals in Africa: challenges and opportunities.