People practicing open defecation, urban (% of urban population) - Country Ranking - Africa

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/).

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 São Tomé and Principe 38.63 2020
2 Eritrea 32.90 2016
3 Benin 31.46 2020
4 Namibia 25.30 2020
5 Madagascar 23.65 2020
6 Liberia 17.99 2020
7 Chad 16.60 2020
8 Togo 11.88 2020
9 Niger 11.44 2020
10 Côte d'Ivoire 10.10 2020
11 Nigeria 8.47 2020
12 Cabo Verde 8.31 2020
13 Mauritania 8.25 2020
14 Ghana 7.49 2020
15 Central African Republic 6.71 2020
16 Burkina Faso 6.38 2020
17 Mozambique 5.06 2020
18 Sierra Leone 5.00 2020
19 Lesotho 4.54 2020
20 Dem. Rep. Congo 3.90 2020
21 Ethiopia 2.80 2020
22 Djibouti 2.71 2020
23 Equatorial Guinea 2.55 2017
24 Uganda 1.88 2020
25 Gabon 1.70 2020
26 Sudan 1.66 2020
27 Zambia 1.57 2020
28 Congo 1.54 2020
29 Rwanda 1.42 2020
30 Tanzania 1.38 2020
31 Senegal 1.36 2020
32 Kenya 1.31 2020
33 Malawi 1.23 2020
34 Guinea 0.99 2020
35 Botswana 0.90 2020
36 Cameroon 0.84 2020
37 Somalia 0.74 2020
38 Guinea-Bissau 0.64 2020
39 Eswatini 0.58 2020
40 Comoros 0.53 2018
41 Burundi 0.47 2020
42 Mali 0.36 2020
43 South Africa 0.33 2020
44 The Gambia 0.02 2020
45 Algeria 0.00 2020
45 Egypt 0.00 2020
45 Angola 0.00 2020
45 Morocco 0.00 2020
45 Mauritius 0.00 2020
45 Zimbabwe 0.00 2020
45 Tunisia 0.00 2020

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Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual