China is the world's largest importer of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), whereas India toppled Japan to acquire second position. It is because of Indian government's drive to
provide free cooking connections to women from extremely poor households resulted in 32.5 million new LPG connections being added in FY17. The government's efforts have pushed up India's active LPG user count to about 200 million. It aims to increase the households using LPG to 80% of total households in India by FY19 from 72.8% as on April 1, 2017.