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Zambia
Access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking, rural (% of rural population)

Access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking, rural is the proportion of rural population primarily using clean cooking fuels and technologies for cooking. Under WHO guidelines, kerosene is excluded from clean cooking fuels.

Global rank#159out of 189 countries
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Historical trend

2.42.21.91.71.4200020122023Zambia · 2023: 2Zambia

Analytical takeaways

  • Zambia records 2 for Access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking, rural (% of rural population) in 2023, ranking #159 globally out of 189 countries.
  • Access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking, rural (% of rural population) increased from 1 in 2000 to 2 in 2023, a gain of 1.
  • The country sits in the bottom quartile of the global distribution for this metric, which also makes the page relevant for low-value and lagging-performance searches.

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