High income - People practicing open defecation, rural (% of rural population)

People practicing open defecation, rural (% of rural population) in High income was 0.000 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 20 years was 0.108 in 2001, while its lowest value was 0.000 in 2019.

Definition: People practicing open defecation refers to the percentage of the population defecating in the open, such as in fields, forest, bushes, open bodies of water, on beaches, in other open spaces or disposed of with solid waste.

Source: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply and Sanitation (http://www.wssinfo.org/).

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Year Value
2000 0.072
2001 0.108
2002 0.105
2003 0.103
2004 0.100
2005 0.096
2006 0.087
2007 0.079
2008 0.071
2009 0.062
2010 0.054
2011 0.045
2012 0.036
2013 0.026
2014 0.020
2015 0.019
2016 0.017
2017 0.000
2018 0.000
2019 0.000
2020 0.000

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Risk factors