Who cooks with clean fuel?

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Access to clean cooking fuels

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Overview

Cooking over open fires and dirty stoves fills homes with smoke that kills millions each year. This map shows the share of each country's people with access to clean cooking fuels and technologies.

Key facts

Around a third of the world still lacks clean cooking.
Household air pollution from dirty cooking causes millions of premature deaths a year.
Access is lowest in sub-Saharan Africa.

Common questions

What counts as clean cooking?

Cooking with clean fuels and technologies — such as electricity, gas, or solar — rather than solid fuels like wood, charcoal, coal or kerosene.

Why does it matter?

Smoke from dirty cooking is a leading environmental cause of death, especially for women and children who spend the most time near the stove.

Where does the data come from?

The World Bank and WHO, compiled via Our World in Data.

Sources & methodology

Data from World Bank / WHO (via Our World in Data), compiled via Our World in Data. Global figures are population-weighted across the countries that report this measure; countries without reliable recent data are shown as “no data”.

Last updated: 3 August 2026.