Our World in Data · OWID.SANITATION
Share of population using safely managed sanitation
Safely managed sanitation are improved sanitation facilities that are not shared with other households and where excreta are safely disposed in situ or transported and treated off-site.
Share of population using safely managed sanitation data
Unweighted average of the 34 countries reporting in 2024
+23% on 2014. Country values run from 8.1 to 79.8 %. An average of country values, not a regional total.
- Countries covered
- 35
- Years
- 2000–2024
- Observations
- 872
- Source
- Our World in Data
Countries
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Years
2000 – 2024 · 25 years
Annual values by country, 2000 to 2024
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- Algeria
- Benin
- Burkina Faso
3 countries · 25 years · 872 values in the snapshot
Data tablevalues in %
| Country | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Algeria DZ | 58.9 | 59.2 | 59.5 | 59.9 | 60.2 | 60.5 | 60.8 | 61.1 | 61.4 | 61.7 | 62 | 62.3 | 62.3 | 62.4 | 62.4 | 62.4 | 62.4 | 62.4 | 62.4 | 62.4 | 62.4 | 62.4 | 62.4 | 62.5 | 62.5 |
| Benin BJ | 6.2 | 6.6 | 6.9 | 7.3 | 7.7 | 8 | 8.4 | 8.8 | 9.3 | 9.7 | 10.1 | 10.5 | 10.9 | 11.3 | 11.7 | 12.2 | 12.6 | 13.1 | 13.5 | 14 | 14.4 | 14.9 | 15.4 | 15.9 | 16.4 |
| Burkina Faso BF | 5.9 | 6.1 | 6.9 | 7.6 | 8.4 | 9.2 | 10 | 10.8 | 11.6 | 12.3 | 13.1 | 13.9 | 14.7 | 15.5 | 16.4 | 17.2 | 18 | 18.9 | 19.7 | 20.6 | 21.4 | 22.3 | 23.2 | 24 | 24.7 |
Source and notes
- Indicator code
- OWID.SANITATION
- Unit
- %
- Licence
- CC BY 4.0
- Collection
- Our World in Data
Values as published by Our World in Data: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (2025). Coverage is the countries and years held in this snapshot, not the full extent of the series at source. Check at ourworldindata.org.
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