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Only one in three Afghans has access to electricity despite years of spending to improve supply, and the country is still far too dependent on imported power, the head of the country's state owned power utility told Reuters.

Abdul Razique Samadi, the chief executive officer at Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), said the situation in the capital, Kabul, is far better than the rest of the country, with around 70 percent of households connected.

"Instead of having electricity for two hours, we have power for 24 hours and it is quite reliable," he told Reuters.

About half of India's 1.2 billion people have no access to power and less than a third of sub-Saharan Africa is electrified.