Arab Development Portal

According to World Bank, the cumulative regional cost of the pandemic is estimated at US$200 billion in terms of losses by the end of 2021, compared to where the MENA region’s would have been without the pandemic.
The current global health crisis has shown the extent to which economic performance & recovery depends on pandemic control & equitable rollout of vaccines. The outlook is uneven; while had the world’s highest fully vaccinated population at 90% by the end of 2021, only 1% of the population was fully vaccinated in .

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More people than ever before – 81.7 percent of rural population – have access to electricity in areas.

However, this remains a challenge in , and , where more than half of the rural population still lack access.

66.3% of the region's population used the in 2021. This represents an increase of 21% since 2019, with 51 million people estimated to have come online during that period. However, the gap between users in urban and rural areas remains high at 80%.