Dirty Cooking Fuel
Reliance on polluting fuels and inefficient stoves exposes more than two billion people to household air pollution, causing an estimated 2.9 million deaths annually and imposing major health, productivity, and climate costs.
Severity score
76.7
Critical · default weighting
Trajectory
Steady
What this is
Score breakdown
Each factor is a 0–100 relative severity index, not the raw figure or a specific time period. The actual counts and periods are listed under "Standardized Impact" on the right.
Loss of life
76Direct and attributable mortality, normalised across annual and cumulative tolls.
Lives negatively impacted
90People displaced, injured, food-insecure, exposed or otherwise materially harmed.
Financial cost
86Direct damage, lost output and health-system spend attributable to the event.
Environmental impact
58Emissions, habitat and biodiversity loss, contamination and irreversibility.
Trajectory
55Whether the situation is escalating, and how much worse it is plausibly getting.
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