People using at least basic sanitation services (% of population) - Country Ranking

Definition: The percentage of people using at least basic sanitation services, that is, improved sanitation facilities that are not shared with other households. This indicator encompasses both people using basic sanitation services as well as those using safely managed sanitation services. Improved sanitation facilities include flush/pour flush to piped sewer systems, septic tanks or pit latrines; ventilated improved pit latrines, compositing toilets or pit latrines with slabs.

Source: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (washdata.org).

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Kuwait 100.00 2020
1 Macao SAR, China 100.00 2020
1 Qatar 100.00 2020
1 Singapore 100.00 2020
1 Seychelles 100.00 2020
1 Andorra 100.00 2020
1 Bahrain 100.00 2020
1 Chile 100.00 2020
1 Monaco 100.00 2020
1 New Zealand 100.00 2020
1 New Caledonia 100.00 2020
1 Poland 100.00 2020
1 Puerto Rico 100.00 2020
1 Saudi Arabia 100.00 2020
1 San Marino 100.00 2020
1 Uzbekistan 100.00 2020
17 Australia 99.99 2020
18 Austria 99.97 2020
19 Iraq 99.97 2020
20 Malta 99.96 2020
21 Liechtenstein 99.95 2020
22 Israel 99.95 2020
23 Korea 99.94 2020
24 Japan 99.92 2020
25 Spain 99.90 2020
26 Switzerland 99.90 2020
27 Italy 99.89 2020
28 United States 99.68 2020
29 Palau 99.62 2020
30 Portugal 99.60 2020
31 Greenland 99.60 2020
32 Denmark 99.60 2020
33 Malaysia 99.58 2018
34 Belgium 99.49 2020
35 Finland 99.45 2020
36 Turkmenistan 99.41 2020
37 Cyprus 99.40 2020
38 Oman 99.32 2020
39 Albania 99.30 2020
40 Sweden 99.29 2020
41 United Arab Emirates 99.23 2020
42 Germany 99.23 2020
43 Turkey 99.22 2020
44 Lebanon 99.20 2020
45 Fiji 99.16 2020
46 Estonia 99.14 2020
47 Czech Republic 99.13 2020
48 United Kingdom 99.11 2020
49 Canada 99.03 2020
50 Greece 98.99 2020
51 Iceland 98.78 2020
52 Thailand 98.71 2020
53 France 98.65 2020
54 North Macedonia 98.33 2020
55 Slovenia 98.10 2020
56 Barbados 98.09 2020
57 Uruguay 98.05 2020
58 Norway 98.05 2020
59 Hungary 97.98 2020
60 Costa Rica 97.91 2020
61 Belarus 97.90 2020
62 Serbia 97.90 2020
63 Kyrgyz Republic 97.89 2020
64 Kazakhstan 97.87 2020
65 Montenegro 97.77 2020
66 Ukraine 97.74 2020
67 Netherlands 97.69 2020
68 Luxembourg 97.59 2020
69 Slovak Republic 97.53 2020
70 Tunisia 97.43 2020
71 Egypt 97.33 2020
72 Jordan 97.08 2020
73 Samoa 96.77 2020
74 Tajikistan 96.77 2020
75 Croatia 96.57 2020
76 Hong Kong SAR, China 96.50 2020
77 Brunei 96.35 2015
78 Azerbaijan 96.13 2019
79 Venezuela 95.76 2020
80 Mauritius 95.50 2017
81 Argentina 95.42 2016
82 Bosnia and Herzegovina 95.39 2018
83 St. Kitts and Nevis 94.95 2017
84 The Bahamas 94.93 2019
85 Lithuania 93.94 2020
86 Armenia 93.94 2020
87 Trinidad and Tobago 93.92 2020
88 Colombia 93.68 2020
89 Sri Lanka 93.65 2020
90 Tonga 92.89 2020
91 Paraguay 92.72 2020
92 Latvia 92.42 2020
93 Mexico 92.42 2020
94 China 92.38 2020
95 Libya 92.11 2020
96 Ecuador 91.52 2020
97 Grenada 91.49 2017
98 Cuba 91.36 2020
99 Ireland 91.34 2020
100 Iran 90.27 2020
101 Brazil 90.08 2020
102 Suriname 89.95 2020
103 Syrian Arab Republic 89.69 2020
104 Russia 89.39 2020
105 Vietnam 89.25 2020
106 Belize 88.21 2020
107 Antigua and Barbuda 87.50 2017
108 Morocco 87.25 2020
109 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 87.18 2018
110 Dominican Republic 87.18 2020
111 Romania 87.07 2020
112 Jamaica 86.61 2020
113 Indonesia 86.46 2020
114 Bulgaria 86.03 2020
115 Algeria 85.97 2020
116 Guyana 85.78 2020
117 Georgia 85.77 2020
118 Dem. People's Rep. Korea 84.67 2020
119 Panama 84.57 2020
120 Honduras 83.78 2020
121 Tuvalu 83.74 2018
122 Cayman Islands 83.65 2016
123 St. Lucia 83.37 2020
124 El Salvador 82.45 2020
125 Philippines 82.26 2020
126 Dominica 80.37 2017
127 Botswana 80.03 2020
128 Lao PDR 79.48 2020
129 Cabo Verde 79.12 2020
130 Moldova 78.73 2020
131 Peru 78.58 2020
132 South Africa 78.47 2020
133 Nepal 76.61 2020
134 Bhutan 76.51 2020
135 Myanmar 73.64 2020
136 Nicaragua 73.02 2020
137 India 71.27 2020
138 Rwanda 68.83 2020
139 Cambodia 68.77 2020
140 Pakistan 68.40 2020
141 Guatemala 67.93 2020
142 Mongolia 67.74 2020
143 Djibouti 66.72 2020
144 Equatorial Guinea 66.31 2017
145 Bolivia 65.76 2020
146 Nauru 65.60 2017
147 Eswatini 64.29 2020
148 Senegal 56.78 2020
149 Timor-Leste 56.77 2020
150 Bangladesh 54.16 2020
151 Yemen 54.12 2020
152 Vanuatu 52.71 2020
153 Angola 51.66 2020
154 Afghanistan 50.50 2020
155 Lesotho 50.32 2020
156 Mauritania 49.83 2020
157 Gabon 49.82 2020
158 São Tomé and Principe 47.62 2020
159 The Gambia 46.87 2020
160 Burundi 45.73 2020
161 Kiribati 45.58 2020
162 Mali 45.39 2020
163 Cameroon 44.63 2020
164 Nigeria 42.72 2020
165 Somalia 39.31 2020
166 Mozambique 37.20 2020
167 Haiti 37.12 2020
168 Sudan 36.89 2020
169 Comoros 35.91 2019
170 Namibia 35.26 2020
171 Zimbabwe 35.19 2020
172 Solomon Islands 34.76 2020
173 Côte d'Ivoire 34.57 2020
174 Kenya 32.70 2020
175 Zambia 31.90 2020
176 Tanzania 31.76 2020
177 Guinea 29.78 2020
178 Malawi 26.55 2020
179 Ghana 23.70 2020
180 Burkina Faso 21.66 2020
181 Congo 20.46 2020
182 Uganda 19.79 2020
183 Papua New Guinea 19.22 2020
184 Togo 18.60 2020
185 Guinea-Bissau 18.23 2020
186 Liberia 18.16 2020
187 Benin 16.96 2020
188 Sierra Leone 16.51 2020
189 Dem. Rep. Congo 15.39 2020
190 Niger 14.75 2020
191 Central African Republic 14.12 2020
192 Madagascar 12.31 2020
193 Chad 12.06 2020
194 Eritrea 11.94 2016
195 Ethiopia 8.91 2020

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Development Relevance: Sanitation is fundamental to human development. Many international organizations use hygienic sanitation facilities as a measure for progress in the fight against poverty, disease, and death. Access to proper sanitation is also considered to be a human right, not a privilege, for every man, woman, and child. Sanitation generally refers to the provision of facilities and services for the safe disposal of human urine and feces. Inadequate sanitation is a major cause of disease world-wide and improving sanitation is known to have a significant beneficial impact on people's health. Basic and safely managed sanitation services can reduce diarrheal disease, and can significantly lessen the adverse health impacts of other disorders responsible for death and disease among millions of children. Diarrhea and worm infections weaken children and make them more susceptible to malnutrition and opportunistic infections like pneumonia, measles and malaria. The combined effects of inadequate sanitation, unsafe water supply and poor personal hygiene are responsible for many of childhood deaths. Every year, the failure to tackle these deficits results in severe welfare losses - wasted time, reduced productivity, ill health, impaired learning, environmental degradation and lost opportunities. Fundamental behavior changes are required before the use of improved facilities and services can be integrated into daily life. Many hygiene behaviors and habits are formed in childhood and, therefore, school health and hygiene education programs are an important part of water and sanitation improvements. Most basic sanitation technologies are not expensive to implement. However, those facing the problems of inadequate sanitation may not be aware of either the origin of their ills, or the true costs of poor sanitation and hygiene. As a result, in most of the developing countries those without sanitation are hard to convince of the need to invest scarce resources in sanitation facilities, or of the critical importance of changing long-held habits and unhygienic behaviors. Consequently, the people's representatives - governments and elected political leaders - rarely give sanitation or hygiene improvements the priority that is needed in order to tackle the massive sanitation deficit faced by the developing world. Children bear the brunt of sanitation-related impacts - their health, nutrition, growth, education, self-respect, and life opportunities suffer as a result of inadequate sanitation. Without improved sanitation, many of the current generation of children in developing countries are unlikely to develop to their full potential. Countries that don't take urgent action to redress sanitation deficiencies will find their future development and prosperity impaired.

Limitations and Exceptions: National, regional and income group estimates are made when data are available for at least 50 percent of the population.

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Data on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene are produced by the Joint Monitoring Programme of the World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) based on administrative sources, national censuses and nationally representative household surveys. WHO/UNICEF defines basic sanitation facilities as improved sanitation facilities that are not shared with other households. Improved sanitation facilities include flush/pour flush to piped sewer systems, septic tanks or pit latrines; ventilated improved pit latrines, compositing toilets or pit latrines with slabs.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual