plate 159 · 2024 data

Nine in ten Indonesians now cook with clean fuels

Share of people relying mainly on clean fuels and technology for cooking, %, 2000 and 2024.

The energy switch
  1. 1. China now uses more electricity per person than the EU
  2. 2. Solar now makes more of Brazil's power than fossil fuels
  3. 3. Rooftop solar now outsizes coal on Australia's main grid
  4. 4. Volcanic heat makes nearly 45% of the power Kenya generates
  5. 5. France swung from power importer to record exporter
  6. 6. Over a quarter of China's new heavy trucks are electric
  7. 7. More than two in three cars Nepal imports are electric
  8. 8. The US now ships a quarter of the world's LNG
  9. 9. Kazakhstan mines more uranium than Canada and Namibia combined
  10. 10. Indonesia now mines two-thirds of the world's nickel
  11. 11. India had 27 million ACs for 1.3 billion people
  12. 12. Sun and wind now beat fossil fuels in Chile
  13. 13. Two in three rickshaws sold in India are electric
  14. 14. Argentina mined 60% more lithium in just one year
  15. 15. Ethiopia added over a third of Africa's new renewable power
  16. 16. Only 16 countries are building new coal power plants
  17. 17. Egypt's sun and wind now outproduce its Nile dams
  18. 18. The price of lithium fell 86% in three years
  19. 19. Pakistan now gets more power from solar than from coal
  20. 20. Oil now makes less than a third of Saudi power
  21. 21. The Philippines is building more solar than it already runs
  22. 22. Nine in ten Indonesians now cook with clean fuels
90%

Indonesians relying mainly on clean fuels and technology for cooking in 2024, up from 6% in 2000.

2014

The year Indonesia passed the world average, 64% to 62%. In 2000 it trailed 6% to 47%.

22%

Share in sub-Saharan Africa in 2024, up from 9% in 2000. Nigeria is at 28%, Ethiopia at 7%.

Source: WHO, Global Health Observatory, via UN SDG Global Database (indicator 7.1.2), 2024
the numbers & method
Nine in ten Indonesians now cook with clean fuels. Source: WHO, Global Health Observatory, via UN SDG Global Database (indicator 7.1.2), 2024.
2000 (%)2024 (%)
Indonesia690
Viet Nam1591
India2281
World4775
Nigeria128

Claim types Estimate

SDG indicator 7.1.2, series EG_EGY_CLEAN 'Proportion of population with primary reliance on clean fuels and technology (%)', Location = all areas (the API also returns urban and rural rows); custodian agency WHO (Global Health Observatory). Read from the UN SDG Global Database API (release 2026.Q3.G.01) on 4 Nov 2026. WHO publishes whole percentages; country values are WHO model estimates (nature 'E'), regional and world values are WHO aggregates. 2000 → 2024: Indonesia 6 → 90; Viet Nam 15 → 91; India 22 → 81; Pakistan 24 → 51; Nigeria 1 → 28; Ethiopia 1 → 7; World 47 → 75; sub-Saharan Africa 9 → 22. Indonesia vs world: 2013 60 vs 60, 2014 64 vs 62 (first year above). Indonesia by year: 22% in 2007, 54% in 2012, 69% in 2015. WHO's own household air pollution page (read 4 Nov 2026) gives the world at 74% in 2023 and 49% in 2000 from an earlier edition; this plate uses the newer SDG release (74% in 2023, 47% in 2000). Primary reliance means the main fuel or technology a household uses to cook. WHO counts solar, electric, biogas, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and alcohol fuels including ethanol as clean (WHO Clean Household Energy Solutions Toolkit, module 7): clean at the point of use, so it includes fossil LPG and gas. WHO data are generally licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO (non-commercial), so this plate is not sold in licences or packs (GUIDELINES §4.9).

Published 4 Nov 2026

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