An estimated 4.5 billion people worldwide had access to safely managed sanitation services in 2022. This was an increase of 2.5 billion people since the turn of the century. In 2000, 21.4 percent of the world's population practiced open defecation, but by 2022 this figure had fallen to 5.3 percent.
Number of people with access to sanitation facilities worldwide in 2000 and 2022, by facility type
(in billions)
SAFELY MANAGED: Use of improved facilities that are not shared with other households and where excreta are safely disposed of in situ or removed and treated offsite BASIC Use of improved facilities that are not shared with other households. LIMITED: Use of improved facilities that are shared with other households. UNIMPROVED: Use of pit latrines without a slab or platform, hanging latrines or bucket latrines. OPEN DEFECATION: Disposal of human feces in fields, forests, bushes, open bodies of water, beaches or other open places, or with solid waste
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Joint Monitoring Programme WASH. (July 5, 2023). Number of people with access to sanitation facilities worldwide in 2000 and 2022, by facility type (in billions) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 30, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/278668/quality-of-sanitation-facilities-worldwide-by-type/
Joint Monitoring Programme WASH. "Number of people with access to sanitation facilities worldwide in 2000 and 2022, by facility type (in billions)." Chart. July 5, 2023. Statista. Accessed December 30, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/278668/quality-of-sanitation-facilities-worldwide-by-type/
Joint Monitoring Programme WASH. (2023). Number of people with access to sanitation facilities worldwide in 2000 and 2022, by facility type (in billions). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 30, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/278668/quality-of-sanitation-facilities-worldwide-by-type/
Joint Monitoring Programme WASH. "Number of People with Access to Sanitation Facilities Worldwide in 2000 and 2022, by Facility Type (in Billions)." Statista, Statista Inc., 5 Jul 2023, https://www.statista.com/statistics/278668/quality-of-sanitation-facilities-worldwide-by-type/
Joint Monitoring Programme WASH, Number of people with access to sanitation facilities worldwide in 2000 and 2022, by facility type (in billions) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/278668/quality-of-sanitation-facilities-worldwide-by-type/ (last visited December 30, 2024)
Number of people with access to sanitation facilities worldwide in 2000 and 2022, by facility type (in billions) [Graph], Joint Monitoring Programme WASH, July 5, 2023. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/278668/quality-of-sanitation-facilities-worldwide-by-type/
