Clean cooking access in Sub-Saharan Africa
22.9% of people in Sub-Saharan Africa mainly used clean fuels and technologies for cooking in 2024. The value for 2024 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2000.
Sub-Saharan Africa is a group: World Bank region. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Sub-Saharan Africa, 2024
22.9%
Change from 2023
+0.8percentage points
World, 2024
75.4%
Clean cooking access in Sub-Saharan Africa over time
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The chart shows a calculation from the published values. The table below keeps the published values.
% of population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Sub-Saharan Africa | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 22.9% | 75.4% |
| 2023 | 22.1% | 74.5% |
| 2022 | 21.3% | 73.7% |
| 2021 | 20.5% | 72.4% |
| 2020 | 19.5% | 71.3% |
| 2019 | 18.6% | 69.9% |
| 2018 | 17.5% | 68.7% |
| 2017 | 16.5% | 67.1% |
| 2016 | 15.5% | 65.6% |
| 2015 | 14.7% | 63.9% |
| 2014 | 14.0% | 62.4% |
| 2013 | 13.3% | 60.8% |
| 2012 | 12.7% | 59.4% |
| 2011 | 12.3% | 57.9% |
| 2010 | 12.0% | 56.7% |
| 2009 | 11.8% | 55.5% |
| 2008 | 11.3% | 54.3% |
| 2007 | 11.1% | 53.4% |
| 2006 | 10.7% | 52.8% |
| 2005 | 10.5% | 52.1% |
| 2004 | 10.1% | 51.2% |
| 2003 | 9.8% | 50.4% |
| 2002 | 9.6% | 49.6% |
| 2001 | 9.3% | 48.8% |
| 2000 | 9.1% | 47.8% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +0.8 percentage points from 22.1% in 2023.
- Since 2014, when it was 14.0%, the figure has changed by +8.9 percentage points.
- The figure for the world in 2024 was 75.4%.