Percentage of population using solid fuels as the main cooking fuel
The share of households by region who rely on wood, crop residues, dung, charcoal, or coal as the main cooking fuel. The burning of solid fuels in households forcooking and heating can lead to very low indoor air quality, and illness or mortality from pneumonia, stroke, heart disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, andlung cancer.
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- Access to clean fuels for cooking vs. GDP per capita
- Child mortality from respiratory infections vs. access to clean fuels for cooking
- Death rate from indoor air pollutionAge-standardized
- Death rate from indoor air pollution vs. GDP per capita
- Death rate from indoor air pollution vs. share in extreme poverty
- Deaths from household and outdoor air pollution
- Deaths from indoor air pollution
- Deaths from indoor air pollution, by age
- Has country already reached SDG target on clean cooking fuels?
- Household air pollution deaths by region
- Indoor air pollution death rate vs. access to clean fuels for cooking
- Indoor air pollution vs. outdoor air pollution death rate
- Number of deaths from indoor air pollution, 1990 vs. 2019
- Share of deaths from indoor air pollution
- Share of rural vs. urban population with electricity access
- Share of the population with access to clean fuels for cooking