Nigeria, four others rank bottom of clean cooking access 

Despite boasting of gas deposits of over 209 trillion standard cubic feet, Nigeria is among five countries in Africa with almost half a billion people without clean cooking access.
  
The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) new report – ‘A Vision for Clean Cooking Access for All 2023’ – noted that China, India and Indonesia lead in the transformation to clean cooking.
  
While countries like Nigeria have ended fuel subsidies, the growth in clean cooking in the Asian countries was linked to LPG subsidies, rapid urbanisation coupled with broader electricity access and policy adoption, the report said.
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The report noted that 2.3 billion people live without access to clean cooking, largely in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and developing Asia.
  
“In developing Asia, the number of people without clean cooking access has declined by 840 million, with China, India and Indonesia leading the way,” said the report.
   
In SSA, 29 countries have access rates below 20 per cent, the report noted, adding that half of the almost a billion people without clean cooking access are concentrated in five countries of Nigeria, Ethiopia, DRC, Tanzania and Uganda.
   
According to the report, while countries in Latin America do not have universal access to clean cooking, most of the countries have over 80 per cent access rates, and the population without access is less than 75 million across the region.
   
“Progress on providing clean cooking access has been mixed across the 128 countries that currently do not have universal access, with some regions making great strides.

“The number of people without access to clean cooking has fallen from approximately three billion in 2010 to an estimated 2.3 billion,” it noted. 
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