Cooking with wood or dung by country

Share of homes that cook on wood, straw or dung. The map opens on 2019, with figures for 54 countries.

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Highest in 2019

  1. Laos 99.9%
  2. Nepal 99.9%
  3. Thailand 99.8%
  4. Burundi 99.7%
  5. Ghana 99.7%

Lowest in 2019

  1. Turks and Caicos Is. 0.0%
  2. Tunisia 0.1%
  3. North Macedonia 0.2%
  4. Maldives 0.2%
  5. Belarus 0.4%

About the data

Unit
% of households
Years
1992–2023
Data as of
2026-09-28
Source
Global Data Lab
License
Free for non-commercial use with credit; commercial use needs written permission from the Global Data Lab
Credit
Data retrieved from the Wealth database of the Global Data Lab (v2.1), https://globaldatalab.org/wealth/

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