{"id":1293094,"name":"Share of households with air conditioning","unit":"%","createdAt":"2026-07-20T09:33:01.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-07-20T09:33:01.000Z","coverage":"","timespan":"2015-2025","datasetId":8072,"shortUnit":"%","columnOrder":0,"shortName":"share_of_households_with_air_conditioning","catalogPath":"grapher/iea/2026-07-20/share_of_households_with_air_conditioning/share_of_households_with_air_conditioning#share_of_households_with_air_conditioning","descriptionShort":"Percentage of households equipped with air conditioning.","descriptionProcessing":"The main time series (2015 onwards) for China, Europe, India, Japan, Southeast Asia and the United States comes from the IEA's 2026 commentary on cooling and electricity demand. We supplemented it with the IEA's 2018 estimates for Brazil, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and South Korea, which are only available for that single year.","type":"int","datasetName":"Share of households with air conditioning","updatePeriodDays":365,"datasetVersion":"2026-07-20","nonRedistributable":true,"display":{"unit":"%","shortUnit":"%","tolerance":5,"numDecimalPlaces":0},"schemaVersion":2,"processingLevel":"minor","presentation":{"attributionShort":"IEA","topicTagsLinks":["Energy"]},"descriptionKey":["Air conditioning ownership has been rising across major economies, driven by growing incomes in hot-climate countries and by more frequent and intense heatwaves.","Values for regions (\"Europe\" and \"Southeast Asia\") are the IEA's own regional estimates and are not aggregated by Our World in Data from individual countries."],"dimensions":{"years":{"values":[{"id":2018},{"id":2015},{"id":2016},{"id":2017},{"id":2019},{"id":2020},{"id":2021},{"id":2022},{"id":2023},{"id":2024},{"id":2025}]},"entities":{"values":[{"id":37,"name":"Brazil","code":"BRA"},{"id":171,"name":"China","code":"CHN"},{"id":276,"name":"Europe","code":"OWID_EUR"},{"id":137,"name":"India","code":"IND"},{"id":14,"name":"Japan","code":"JPN"},{"id":113,"name":"Mexico","code":"MEX"},{"id":90,"name":"Saudi Arabia","code":"SAU"},{"id":81,"name":"South Africa","code":"ZAF"},{"id":127,"name":"South Korea","code":"KOR"},{"id":34614,"name":"Southeast Asia","code":null},{"id":13,"name":"United States","code":"USA"}]}},"origins":[{"id":18831,"title":"Share of households with air conditioning","description":"The International Energy Agency (IEA) tracks the adoption of air conditioning across major economies and regions as part of its analysis of cooling and electricity demand. This data reports the share of households equipped with air conditioning in selected countries and regions.\n\nThe adoption of air conditioning has been accelerating around the world, driven by rising incomes in hot-climate economies and by record-breaking heatwaves in regions that previously had limited cooling demand. Cooling is one of the fastest-growing sources of electricity demand in buildings.","producer":"International Energy Agency","citationFull":"International Energy Agency (2026). Cooling a hotter world: El Niño meets strong growth in global electricity demand. IEA, Paris.\n\nSupplemented with 2018 estimates from: International Energy Agency (2018). Percentage of households equipped with AC in selected countries, 2018. IEA, Paris.","attributionShort":"IEA","urlMain":"https://www.iea.org/commentaries/cooling-a-hotter-world-el-nino-meets-strong-growth-in-global-electricity-demand","dateAccessed":"2026-07-20","datePublished":"2026-07-10","license":{"url":"https://www.iea.org/terms","name":"CC BY 4.0"}}]}