Urban Among all households, only 23% had electricity for 24 hours in the day prior to the survey being administered (Figure 15). The government-owned power supply was the predominant source of lighting in urban and rural areas. It accounted for lighting in 89% of households in urban areas. The primary source of lighting in rural areas was more varied, with solar power being the main source of lighting. Only a quarter of households in rural areas relied on the government owned power supply as their primary source of lighting (Table 5). 4% Rural 8% 3.4% 8.2% 88% 88.4% Yes, has access to government electric power supply s access to government Yes, has access to other electric power supply Yes, both No Figure 14: Access to electric power supply (% of households) 100% 8% 46% 90% 80% 70% 60% 63% 28% 50% 40% 13% 30% 20% 10% 42% 7% 14% 23% 0% Urban Rural 24 hours 21 - 23 hours 18- 20 hours 15- 17 hours 12 - 14 hours 9 - 11 hours 6 - 8 hours 3- 5 hours 0 - 2 hours No electricity Total Figure 15: Electric power supply – urban vs. rural (% of households) ICTs in Myanmar: 2016 29

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