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Global insights. Background. Covid-19 impact on progress towards SDG7 and other development goals. Sales and impact trends. East Africa insights. West Africa insights. Central Africa insights. South Asia insights. East Asia and Pacifi insights. Methodology of sales data collections. Methodology of impact metrics estimation.

In the first half of 2020, global sales of off-grid solar lighting products fell 26% compared to the same period in 2019, with only 3 million units sold. These were the lowest volumes recorded since 2014. While all off-grid solar product categories were affected by the challenging conditions, declines in sales of entry-level products, often purchased by customers living on the lowest incomes, were most severe. Sales of portable lanterns without mobile charging dropped below 1 million for the first time since record keeping began. Data has been grouped into product categories to present sales in a segmented manner that provides the most value and information to the market. This means segmenting the off-grid solar lighting products in 7 categories and each appliances product in several sub-categories varying depending on the appliance type. Please refer to Tables 6 and 7 for more details.