Countries with the greatest solar cooking potential

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Solar Cookers International has compiled a list of twenty-five countries with the highest potential for solar cooking. Criteria for this ranking include annual average sunlight, cooking fuel scarcity and population size. Of the estimated 500 million people who have abundant sunshine and suffer from fuel scarcity, 85% of them live in just 10 countries.

Latitudes between the equator and 40º are usually best, though solar cooking at high latitudes is possible, even in the winter. The darker regions on the following map tend to have longer cooking seasons.

The countries are listed here in the order of their solar cooking potential^[1]:

1. India
2. China
3. Pakistan
4. Ethiopia
5. Nigeria
6. South Africa
7. Brazil
8. Uganda.
9. Tanzania
10. Afghanistan
11. Sudan
12. Nepal
13. Kenya
14. Somalia
15. Niger
16. Mozambique
17. Burkina Faso
18. Haiti
19. Madagascar
20. Malawi
21. Zimbabwe
22. Sri Lanka
23. Eritrea
24. Dominican Republic
25. Zambia

Global cloud cover[]

• This 2018 composite cloud cover image provided by the Online Maps blog

See also[]

• Most significant solar cooking projects