Share of population using clean fuels and technologies for cooking
Percent of people using clean fuels/tech for cooking by country (2022). A key health, gender and climate indicator tracked by the WHO/World Bank.
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Key Insights
- •Many high‑income and Gulf countries are effectively at universal clean cooking access (≈100%).
- •Large gaps remain in Sub‑Saharan Africa, where multiple countries remain in the low‑teens or single digits.
- •Several populous countries show partial transitions (e.g., India, Indonesia, Nigeria), meaning progress strongly affects global totals.
- •Clean cooking is both an energy-access metric and a major public‑health determinant due to household air pollution.
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 72.1%)
About This Statistic
This statistic measures the share of a country’s population that primarily uses “clean” fuels and technologies for cooking—such as electricity, LPG, natural gas, biogas, solar, and alcohol fuels, or improved stoves that meet emissions/efficiency standards. It is a core indicator for household air pollution risk and progress toward SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy).
Clean cooking access is highly unequal across the world. Many high‑income countries are near universal access, while parts of Sub‑Saharan Africa and South Asia still have large shares of households relying on solid fuels (wood, charcoal, dung, coal) and traditional stoves, which are linked to major health burdens and deforestation pressures. The WHO/World Bank model provides nationally comparable estimates by combining household survey and census data.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Belarus | 100.0% |
| 2 | Canada | 100.0% |
| 3 | Cape Verde | 100.0% |
| 4 | Cayman Islands | 100.0% |
| 5 | Chile | 100.0% |
| 6 | People's Republic of China | 100.0% |
| 7 | Croatia | 100.0% |
| 8 | Cuba | 100.0% |
| 9 | Cyprus | 100.0% |
| 10 | Czech Republic | 100.0% |
| 11 | Denmark | 100.0% |
| 12 | Estonia | 100.0% |
| 13 | Faroe Islands | 100.0% |
| 14 | Falkland Islands (Malvinas) | 100.0% |
| 15 | Fiji | 100.0% |
| 16 | Finland | 100.0% |
| 17 | France | 100.0% |
| 18 | Georgia | 100.0% |
| 19 | State of Palestine | 100.0% |
| 20 | Germany | 100.0% |
| 21 | Greece | 100.0% |
| 22 | Hungary | 100.0% |
| 23 | Iceland | 100.0% |
| 24 | Ireland | 100.0% |
| 25 | Israel | 100.0% |
| 26 | Italy | 100.0% |
| 27 | Japan | 100.0% |
| 28 | Kazakhstan | 100.0% |
| 29 | Jordan | 100.0% |
| 30 | North Korea | 100.0% |
| 31 | South Korea | 100.0% |
| 32 | Kuwait | 100.0% |
| 33 | Lebanon | 100.0% |
| 34 | Latvia | 100.0% |
| 35 | Libya | 100.0% |
| 36 | Lithuania | 100.0% |
| 37 | Luxembourg | 100.0% |
| 38 | Maldives | 100.0% |
| 39 | Mauritius | 100.0% |
| 40 | Moldova, Republic of | 100.0% |
| 41 | Montenegro | 100.0% |
| 42 | Oman | 100.0% |
| 43 | Netherlands | 100.0% |
| 44 | Country 532 | 100.0% |
| 45 | New Caledonia | 100.0% |
| 46 | New Zealand | 100.0% |
| 47 | Norway | 100.0% |
| 48 | Poland | 100.0% |
| 49 | Portugal | 100.0% |
| 50 | Qatar | 100.0% |
| 51 | Romania | 100.0% |
| 52 | Russian Federation | 100.0% |
| 53 | Saudi Arabia | 100.0% |
| 54 | Serbia | 100.0% |
| 55 | Singapore | 100.0% |
| 56 | Slovakia | 100.0% |
| 57 | Slovenia | 100.0% |
| 58 | Spain | 100.0% |
| 59 | Suriname | 100.0% |
| 60 | Eswatini | 100.0% |
| 61 | Sweden | 100.0% |
| 62 | Switzerland | 100.0% |
| 63 | Tonga | 100.0% |
| 64 | Trinidad and Tobago | 100.0% |
| 65 | United Arab Emirates | 100.0% |
| 66 | Türkiye | 100.0% |
| 67 | Turkmenistan | 100.0% |
| 68 | Ukraine | 100.0% |
| 69 | The Republic of North Macedonia | 100.0% |
| 70 | Egypt | 100.0% |
| 71 | United Kingdom | 100.0% |
| 72 | United States of America | 100.0% |
| 73 | Uruguay | 100.0% |
| 74 | Samoa | 100.0% |
| 75 | Country 886 | 100.0% |
| 76 | Afghanistan | 100.0% |
| 77 | Albania | 100.0% |
| 78 | Algeria | 100.0% |
| 79 | Andorra | 100.0% |
| 80 | Azerbaijan | 100.0% |
| 81 | Argentina | 100.0% |
| 82 | Australia | 100.0% |
| 83 | Austria | 100.0% |
| 84 | Bahrain | 100.0% |
| 85 | Armenia | 100.0% |
| 86 | Barbados | 100.0% |
| 87 | Belgium | 100.0% |
| 88 | Bermuda | 100.0% |
| 89 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 100.0% |
| 90 | Botswana | 100.0% |
| 91 | Brazil | 100.0% |
| 92 | Solomon Islands | 100.0% |
| 93 | Virgin Islands, British | 100.0% |
| 94 | Brunei Darussalam | 100.0% |
| 95 | Costa Rica | 99.0% |
| 96 | Benin | 99.0% |
| 97 | Tunisia | 99.0% |
| 98 | Iraq | 98.0% |
| 99 | Syrian Arab Republic | 96.0% |
| 100 | Uzbekistan | 96.0% |
| 101 | Islamic Republic of Iran | 95.0% |
| 102 | Paraguay | 95.0% |
| 103 | Tajikistan | 95.0% |
| 104 | Venezuela | 95.0% |
| 105 | Colombia | 93.0% |
| 106 | Jamaica | 93.0% |
| 107 | Malaysia | 93.0% |
| 108 | South Africa | 92.0% |
| 109 | Kyrgyzstan | 89.0% |
| 110 | Mexico | 88.0% |
| 111 | Peru | 88.0% |
| 112 | Vietnam | 88.0% |
| 113 | Ecuador | 86.0% |
| 114 | Indonesia | 81.0% |
| 115 | Thailand | 80.0% |
| 116 | Nepal | 76.0% |
| 117 | Panama | 76.0% |
| 118 | Dominican Republic | 73.0% |
| 119 | Guatemala | 73.0% |
| 120 | Honduras | 69.0% |
| 121 | Philippines | 68.0% |
| 122 | Gabon | 65.0% |
| 123 | Sudan | 65.0% |
| 124 | Guyana | 63.0% |
| 125 | Morocco | 62.0% |
| 126 | Angola | 61.0% |
| 127 | Bolivia | 61.0% |
| 128 | India | 60.0% |
| 129 | Mongolia | 58.0% |
| 130 | Nicaragua | 57.0% |
| 131 | El Salvador | 54.0% |
| 132 | Myanmar | 51.0% |
| 133 | Sri Lanka | 50.0% |
| 134 | Pakistan | 49.0% |
| 135 | Bulgaria | 47.0% |
| 136 | Ghana | 46.0% |
| 137 | Namibia | 46.0% |
| 138 | Yemen | 45.0% |
| 139 | Cambodia | 41.0% |
| 140 | Belize | 39.0% |
| 141 | Republic of the Congo | 34.0% |
| 142 | Malta | 32.0% |
| 143 | Senegal | 32.0% |
| 144 | Zimbabwe | 31.0% |
| 145 | Cameroon | 27.0% |
| 146 | Bangladesh | 27.0% |
| 147 | Cote d'Ivoire | 25.0% |
| 148 | Timor-Leste | 24.0% |
| 149 | Nigeria | 22.0% |
| 150 | Mauritania | 21.0% |
| 151 | Vanuatu | 21.0% |
| 152 | Guinea | 20.0% |
| 153 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 18.0% |
| 154 | Kenya | 15.0% |
| 155 | Zambia | 15.0% |
| 156 | Papua New Guinea | 13.0% |
| 157 | Uganda | 13.0% |
| 158 | Malawi | 12.0% |
| 159 | Antigua and Barbuda | 12.0% |
| 160 | Ethiopia | 11.0% |
| 161 | Mozambique | 11.0% |
| 162 | South Sudan | 11.0% |
| 163 | Burundi | 10.0% |
| 164 | Togo | 10.0% |
| 165 | Central African Republic | 9.0% |
| 166 | Burkina Faso | 9.0% |
| 167 | Equatorial Guinea | 8.0% |
| 168 | Lesotho | 8.0% |
| 169 | Mali | 8.0% |
| 170 | Republic of The Gambia | 7.0% |
| 171 | Madagascar | 7.0% |
| 172 | Chad | 5.0% |
| 173 | Rwanda | 5.0% |
| 174 | Eritrea | 4.0% |
| 175 | Bahamas | 4.0% |
| 176 | Niger | 3.0% |
| 177 | United Republic of Tanzania | 3.0% |
| 178 | Haiti | 2.0% |
| 179 | Bhutan | 2.0% |
| 180 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1.0% |
| 181 | Liberia | 1.0% |
| 182 | Somalia | 1.0% |
| 183 | Comoros | 0.0% |
| 184 | Djibouti | 0.0% |
| 185 | Sierra Leone | 0.0% |
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Data Source
This data comes from World Health Organization (WHO) / World Bank — Global Health Observatory / World Development Indicators (modeled estimates) (2022).
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