Only about 11 per cent of Nigerians have access to clean cooking fuel, a new World Bank report has revealed.

According to the report, only about one in five people (about 17 per cent) in Sub-Saharan Africa have access to clean cooking fuels.

The report, titled “2022 tracking SDG7 (Access to clean cooking)”, stated that much more needed to be done, as about a third of the global population—some 2.4 (2.1–2.7) billion people—still lacked access to clean cooking fuels as of 2020.

Over the past decade, access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking rose by only 12 percentage points. If current trends continue, a quarter of the world’s people, mostly in low- and middle-income countries, will lack access to clean cooking fuels by 2030.

According to the report, between 2010 and 2020, the global rate of access to clean cooking fuels and technologies increased at an average annual rate of one percentage point (0.5–1., driven primarily by increases in large, populous countries in Asia.

It also noted that in Sub-Saharan Africa, however, the number of people without access is increasing at an accelerating rate

In a business-as-usual scenario, the number of people without access to clean cooking in Sub-Saharan Africa is set to increase by almost 20 million every year this decade, rising from 923 million in 2020 to over 1.1 billion in 2030, as small gains in the percentage of people with clean cooking fail to keep pace with population growth.

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