Paraguay
Some countries have access to clean cooking technologies and fuels, others are more dependent on the use of polluting, open fires or inefficient fuels for their household cooking needs. The Alliance has gathered information from a number of sources to provide country-level snapshots of a range of factors related to access to clean cookstoves and fuels.
Please contact us at knowledge@cleancookingalliance.org with any questions.
By the Numbers
| Region | Latin America and Caribbean |
| Country | Paraguay |
| Population | 6,687,361 |
| Percentage of population using solid fuels for cooking | 46% |
| Number of people who primarily use fuels such as wood, charcoal, coal, and kerosene for cooking | no data |
| Percentage of woodfuel harvest that is unsustainable | no data |
| Number of people affected by HAP | 3,076,186 |
| Number of households affected by HAP | 668,736 |
| Number of deaths per year attributable to HAP | 2,897 |
| Number of child deaths per year attributable to HAP | 149 |
| Urban population using solid fuels | 33.4% |
| Rural population using solid fuels | 81.2% |
| Population using wood for cooking | 33.8% |
| Population using dung for cooking | 0.0% |
| Population using charcoal for cooking | 0.0% |
| Population using coal for cooking | 13.8% |
| Population using kerosene for cooking | 0.0% |
| Population using gas for cooking | 49.9% |
| Population using electricity for cooking | 1.0% |
| Population using other fuels for cooking | 1.5% |
