Global population with access to sanitation services 2000-2022, by facility type

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Erick Burgueño Salas,
Mar 19, 2024
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)

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July 2023

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2000 to 2022

Supplementary notes

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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