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

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

Global rank#171out of 189 countries
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Historical trend

39.934.128.422.616.8200020122023Zambia · 2023: 17Zambia

Analytical takeaways

  • Zambia records 17 for Access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking, urban (% of urban population) in 2023, ranking #171 globally out of 189 countries.
  • Access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking, urban (% of urban population) declined from 38 in 2000 to 17 in 2023, a decrease of 21.
  • 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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