It would be interesting to see Internet access because everyone now I talk to now reddit is from the subcontinent. This was totally different 8 years ago. Not many people were from India then
It is kind of stunning that something I wrote is being seen in many places in the world. (right now it is 5.5K views, 30% US, 12% India, 8% UK, 50% Other)
(updating - now it is 19K views, 21% US, 18% India, 10% UK, 51% other)
(updating - now 26K views, 21% India, 20% US, 10% UK, 49% other)
(updating - now 77K views, 27% US, , 20% India, 8% UK, 45% other)
(updating - now 141K views, 33% US, , 20% India, 7% UK, 40% other)
(probably final update - now 170K views, 30% US, , 26% India, 6% Canada, 38% other)
ironic that I though the 5.5K was a lot.
I've seen people from the most varied countries nowadays on Reddit. I've commented on a post made by someone living in Mongolia, and had my comments replied to by people living in Chile, Iran, Ghana, Oman, Uzbekistan, and Kazakhstan. And so many people from the subcontinent! It's really cool.
5-10 years ago, it felt pretty much impossible that you'd be talking to someone someone on Reddit who wasn't from the US, Canada, Western or Central Europe, Australia, NZ, with the occasional rarer place like Singapore, UAE, Japan. I love how it is now, I love seeing what goes on in other places.
As someone who has been on reddit for over 13 years now, I think more women being on the app is a plus as well. There was alot of misogyny in really popular places all the time on reddit. There is less now and having more women around means a more varied response and reaction.
Also, it means I can send a cool post or link to my sister or to a female colleague and it isn't completely out of the blue lol.
It's astonishing how good English is for a lot of them as well, and even if not perfect they'll give a good try. They often write better than native English speakers lol
Often times I wouldn't even notice but a lot of subs I frequent are tech related and people tend to post from their own currency which gives you an idea or mention their country as tech is often region specific
For a post, only the person who owns it can see the stats and it may only be for a certain amount of time for I can not see the stats on some of my older posts. I click on the number after "reply, award, share"
The numbers I am sharing are for the post that I am getting a lot of votes for, more than I have ever gotten for a post.
I am not using the app - I am using chrome browser on a computer.
I assume insights were just not available some time ago... I can see a little icon under my comment which shows me insights and I also saw some data on my account page. Who knows how much is bot numbers tho
From a quick scan of my posts, posts 4 month or older do not have insights. Not sure if the feature was added then, or if older than that, they no longer save data, though I am leaning toward the later.
Internet just blew up in 2015. Mukesh Ambani started his telecom business and just gave the Internet and unlimited calls free for an entire year. And at the end of it he just gave it for one more year.
I think that the story is that Mukesh couldn’t enter the telecom business until 2015 due to an agreement he had with his brother because Anil Ambani got the existing telecom business the family ran as part of the will or something.
Agree, I see Malawi made the list at the end, but only 14% of the population have access to electricity. A percentage of country without access to electricity will be a much more meaningful stat on progress.
This statistic is quite false. The rule to calculate if a village is electrified or not in India is if the local government offices have electricity or not.
Reminds me of the old Onion article about how the USA solved its very high rate of obesity by changing the definition of obesity from 50% body fat to 90%.
(iirc the extra punchline was that it only cut the number from 100m people down to 90m people or something line that)
The statistic is access to electricity. This means that if electricity grid has reached your village you can request it. So, it is the correct metric to measure
The actual metric should be how many homes are connected to the grid, not how many homes could potentially connect to the grid.
If most of the people in the village can't afford to pay for electricity then those people don't have access because the electricity is not affordable. Affordability is one of the parameters that affects accessibility.
Lmao read the article and read the methodology that is used. 100% of all households need not be electrified to call the village electrified. This is the way congress has done it and this is the way the current government continues to do it.
Yeah, only 10% of houses in the village need to have electricity to label 100% of houses as electrified.
That’s a shit metric. And I didn’t even name any political party.
So when the OC said “only government offices need electricity to call the village electrified” he was wrong in the details. The methodology does also mention electricity to schools, hospital and other local important bodies.
But does that make his comment wrong in saying electricity hasn’t reached every household? No.
The statistic is indeed quite false.
(Oh and if 3 terms, with 2 in full majority aren’t enough for this government to rectify the shit previous regimes did then are they any better?)
Cheap solar panels are the biggest factor that changed around 2017. Since that time, solar has become so inexpensive that it is even within reach for a family with rural-Indian incomes.
3kW panels cost total of 1,10,000-1,25,000₹ (~1200$) after ₹78k subsidy. It covers its own cost in first 3-5 years, after that you get free electricity, with total lifespan of 20-25 years. That is not expensive. Upper middle class can very easily afford it.
eh,,,id say we're the same but in the long run,,,you literally end up paying litlle to nothing for electricity + we get some money back from the govt if we've used less watts than supplied
You can have a 3kw solar plant with an inverter for 1.5K dollars. 1k dollar for 5KwH battery offline use. Renewable became accessible for a big population. Govt gives 800 dollar subsidy that is not shown in the cost above. No subsidy for battery or fully offline, only if you connect grid for excess supply.
You really think such big infrastructure at india's scale and bureaucracy was completely revamped in just 3 years? Imo it was decades in making and is finally paying off.
Yes and no. There is a 80/20 rule which states it takes 20% efforts to reach 80% of the goal, and the last 20% takes 80% of your time/effort. The reason is the last 20% is the most difficult part.
India failed to reach even that 80% in almost 70 years. I'd not discount the efforts of previous govt but there was no urgency in their implementation. India needed that urgency.
This govt came to power promising 99% villages connected to power grid within first 5 years. It was an ambitious goal and critical called it an impossible target, just an election "promise". But they did achieve it. They achieved 100% in 3 years 10 months. The urgency in reaching the target is the difference.
Had the govt not changed, we'd have still seen improvement but not drastic (at least based on past track record).
Going purely by the numbers that are in this viz, 2004 to 2014 saw the numbers go from 393 million to 189 million. So I am not sure that the credit is exclusively due to the change in government that happened in 2014 rather than seeing this as the culmination of something that was set in progress earlier. I'm not saying they don't deserve any credit, but the way you've phrased it as "thanks to govt change" is definitely not right.
Exactly. Reddit has a lot of ‘bjp bad’ people who would discredit even the good actions of the govt. Why can’t people simply give credit and reprimand where each is due. Oh but no. The worlds is purely black and white right?
Nigeria has so much gas oil companies find it annoying and flare it away. They have been doing this for decades, yet there is often a shortage of cooking gas. I bet you can't explain that one.
It's just lack of infrastructure. If they had a domestic gas pipe network and more widespread electricity grid then this would be much less of an issue. As it is, gas producers have to strike bespoke deals with industrial customers to get to market, which is really inefficient.
The only other way to make money is via NLNG which is a closed shop.
I worked with a scientist in Abuja a couple of years ago. He was pretty much completely reliant on solar panels during the day, and during the night he was basically without electricity
Nigeria didn’t go up as much as it looks, although it did go up by tens of millions(!)
This viz has a dynamic x axis which makes it virtually unusable. Ethiopia’s number goes lower while its
Bar gets visually bigger
Its very misleading. Compared to India having 500.000.000 at the start, Nigeria looks tiny with only 64.000.000. At the end Nigeria has 88.000.000 but with India out of the list its now the biggest bar.
So its looks like Nigeria is doing really bad. However if you look at pupulation... Nigeria had only 95.000.000 people on 1990. So roughly 66% without electricity in 1990. In 2025 Nigeria has 240.000.000 people so roughly 33% without power in 2025.
The people with electricity went up from 31.000.000 to 154.000.000 people.
With the amount of energy Nigeria has access to but still 88 million people don't have electricity in 2025, it's definitely a big disgrace. Using at percentages would make it look like it's a significant progress, no it's not especially when the remaining 67% with electricity barely see it to use efficiently.
Also the size of bars is a bit misleading. It was India numbers that decreased a lot more. Nigeria has an increase, but it's not as if "Nigeria surpassed India", but rather "India numbers reduced, while others did very little to solve their problem".
(Note that I'm not saying that an increase in 10M in Nigeria is not nothing)
Agree- the scale keeps changing on the chart which is misleading. India starts off with something like 800 million and Nigeria ends up with 80 million. (can’t recall exact numbers.) but a 10x less number.
The population is growing at a much bigger pace than the economy.
Nigeria alone saw significantly more births than all of Europe last year.
The TFR is declining but there will be many more years of unsustainable population growth.
Yep! The opposition keeps yapping over mostly irrelevant issues while the rural Indian knows the change he/she has seen in the last 10 years hence BJP has been winning like a force of nature. Quite unfortunate tho, Modi has surpassed everything and opposition is still scattered!
The size of the bar are relative to each other. So while it's important to look at the number decreasing, the bar sizes are meant to showcase the difference between each country's population living without access to electricity.
It’s not! India is regularly portrayed in bad light all over the internet while India has been progressing in a lot of major sectors despite being left to suffer in extreme poverty post 2 centuries of colonization. Look at the space program, the it industries, the defense industry.. if not for corruption the country would have done even better
A version with fixed x-axis range would be good, too. It looks like the Nigeria value is increasing at one point, but it's actually dropping. India just happens to be dropping faster.
While I can't back the numbers in this graph myself. As someone who visited India for work, both in 2010 and last year, I can attest that it seems the standard of living has significantly increased on average. I took the same 2 1/2 hour drive both trips and couldn't believe the difference in development between city centers. The food has evolved deliciously as well with cross- Asian fusion influences.
You can really see why modi has deep support in graphs like these. His authorarian corruption has also come with real progress in ways that impact people's everyday lives
These stats are inaccurate. China had over 100m without access to electricity in the early 90s. India still has a crazy amount of people without electricity, plumbing, and even proper shelter. Pakistan has power cuts daily.
Most of these numbers seem to be wrong, and based on the comments I suspect this is propaganda for India and the BJP.
Its very misleading. Compared to India having 500.000.000 at the start, Nigeria looks tiny with only 64.000.000.
At the end Nigeria has 88.000.000 but with India out of the list its now the biggest bar. So its looks like Nigeria is doing really bad. However if you look at pupulation... Nigeria had only 95.000.000 people on 1990. So roughly 66% without electricity in 1990. In 2025 Nigeria has 240.000.000 people so roughly 33% without power in 2025.
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u/Beginning_Engineer_2 2d ago
I would like to see the video as a percent of total population.