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India: Main cooking fuel: charcoal

0.80percent · 2021

Percentage of households who use charcoal as thier main cooking fuel Annual figures for India from 1993 to 2021.

19932021

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20210.8
20160.6
20060.4
19990.3
19930.4

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by Demographic & Health Surveys. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Main cooking fuel: charcoal. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-main-cooking-fuel-charcoal (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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