North Macedonia's access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking, rural (% of rural population) was 71% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 23 percentage points from 48% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 71% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 60% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 48% | 2014 |
| Highest | 71% | 2024 |
| Lowest | 37% | 2000 |
| Average since 2015 | 61% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 37% | 2000 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, North Macedonia's access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking, rural (% of rural population) rose 2 percentage points on 2023 (from 69% to 71%).
Across the 23 yearly changes before that (2001 to 2023), the average change was +1.39 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.99 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 0.6 standard deviations above that average, so it was an ordinary year: it sits within the range of normal year-to-year movement.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 3 percentage points in 2016. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is upward, about 2.35 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 100% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
A straight-line projection, tested first
Extending that straight line gives about 78.58% for 2027. We show this only because the same method, fitted on earlier years, predicted 2022 to 2024 better than "no change" would have: its average miss was 0.21%, against 4% for assuming no change. Treat it as a continuation of the recent pattern, not a forecast of events: it cannot see a recession, a policy change or a revision to the data.
See how a linear trend forecast works and the guide on forecasting without fooling yourself.
How it compares
In 2024, North Macedonia had the 110th highest value of the 192 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| North Macedonia | 71% | 2024 |
| World | 56.27% | 2024 |
| Europe & Central Asia | 95.19% | 2024 |
| Upper middle income | 78.04% | 2024 |
Closest to North Macedonia in the 2024 ranking
What this measures
Access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking, rural is the proportion of rural population primarily using clean cooking fuels and technologies for cooking. Under WHO guidelines, kerosene is excluded from clean cooking fuels.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 25 values
| Year | Access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking, rural (% of rural population) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 71 |
| 2023 | 69 |
| 2022 | 67 |
| 2021 | 65 |
| 2020 | 63 |
| 2019 | 60 |
| 2018 | 57 |
| 2017 | 55 |
| 2016 | 53 |
| 2015 | 50 |
| 2014 |
Access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking, rural (% of rural population) in nearby economies
- Albania — 81% (2024)
- Andorra — 100% (2024)
- Armenia — 98% (2024)
- Austria — 92% (2024)
- Azerbaijan — 97% (2024)
- Belarus — 99% (2024)
- Belgium — 100% (2024)
- Bosnia and Herzegovina — 41% (2024)
More environment data for North Macedonia
- Population in largest city — 620,825 (2025)
- Population in the largest city (% of urban population) — 54.21% (2025)
- Rural population — 675,721 (2025)
- Rural population (% of total population) — 37.11% (2025)
- Urban population — 1.15 million (2025)
- Urban population (% of total population) — 62.89% (2025)
- Rural population growth (annual %) — -1.07% (2025)
- Urban population growth (annual %) — 0.33% (2025)
- Agricultural land (sq. km) — 12,410 (2024)
- Surface area (sq. km)
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- What is North Macedonia's access to clean fuels and technologies for cooking, rural (% of rural population)?
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Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator EG.CFT.ACCS.RU.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report, International Energy Agency (IEA), note: License: Creative Commons Attribution—NonCommercial 3.0 IGO (CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO); International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), note: Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report; United Nations (UN), note: Tracking SD… Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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