Current Status and Future Prospects of Small-Scale Household Biodigesters in Sub-Saharan Africa

Table 2

Number of household biogas digesters installed in selected African countries.

Country	Msibi and Kornelius [23, 24, 26, 28] and Surendra et al. [65]		IRENA [99]		Clemens et al. [17]		SNV [100]
	Year of initiation	Cumulative no. of domestic biogas plants installed up to 2012	Year of initiation	Household-scale biogas digester units in selected countries, 2014	Year of initiation	Cumulative no. of biogas plants reached up to 2017	Cumulative no. of biogas digesters installed up to 2021
Kenya	2009	6,749	—	14,110	2009	13,260	26,768
Uganda	2009	3,083		5,700	2009	7,588	9,019
Tanzania	2008	4,980		11,100	2009	6,441
Ethiopia	2008	5,011		10,680			34,693
Burkina Faso	2009	2,013		5,460			15,019
Rwanda	2007	2,619		1,700			11,625
Cameroon	2009	159		300
Benin	2010	42		110			249
Senegal	2010	334		—
Zambia							5671