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People practicing open defecation, urban (% of urban population)

Name: People practicing open defecation, urban (% of urban population) by country, 2024
Creator: World Bank, World Development Indicators (CC BY 4.0)
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People practicing open defecation, urban (% of urban population) league table
#	Country		Region	Income
1	Sao Tome and Principe	30.4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
2	Benin	29.4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
3	Kiribati	20	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
4	Namibia	19.8	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
5	South Sudan	16.9	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
6	Chad	15.4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
7	Liberia	13.9	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
8	Madagascar	13.4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
9	Togo	9.4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
10	Ghana	9.1	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
11	Niger	7.9	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
12	Solomon Islands	7.7	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
13	Nigeria	7.1	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
14	Central African Republic	6.8	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
15	Papua New Guinea	5.3	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
16	Burkina Faso	4.8	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
17	Mozambique	4.5	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
18	Cote d'Ivoire	4.3	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
19	Congo, Dem. Rep.	3.9	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
20	Lesotho	3.7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
21	Marshall Islands	3.7	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
22	Sierra Leone	3.7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
23	Sudan	3	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
24	Ethiopia	2.7	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
25	Nepal	2.4	South Asia	Lower middle income
26	Mauritania	1.9	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
27	Vanuatu	1.9	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
28	Uganda	1.8	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
29	Somalia, Fed. Rep.	1.8	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
30	Tuvalu	1.7	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
31	Eswatini	1.4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
32	Botswana	1.4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
33	Mali	1.3	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
34	Gabon	1.2	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
35	Indonesia	1.2	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
36	Honduras	1.1	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
37	Comoros	1.1	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
38	Dominican Republic	1.1	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
39	Philippines	1	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
40	Senegal	1	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
41	Cameroon	0.91	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
42	Malawi	0.84	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
43	Naoero	0.82	East Asia & Pacific	High income
44	Myanmar	0.81	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
45	El Salvador	0.81	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
46	Kenya	0.75	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
47	Jamaica	0.73	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
48	Zambia	0.68	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
49	Guinea	0.67	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
50	Guatemala	0.64	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
51	Antigua and Barbuda	0.59	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
52	Rwanda	0.54	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
53	Tanzania	0.53	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
54	Peru	0.52	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
55	Pakistan	0.48	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
56	Samoa	0.47	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
57	Colombia	0.45	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
58	Yemen, Rep.	0.4	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income
59	South Africa	0.4	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
60	Tunisia	0.35	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
61	Cabo Verde	0.33	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
62	Burundi	0.28	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
63	Mauritius	0.23	Sub-Saharan Africa	Upper middle income
64	Panama	0.2	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
65	Suriname	0.18	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
66	Guinea-Bissau	0.17	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
67	Trinidad and Tobago	0.16	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
68	Mongolia	0.14	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
69	Cuba	0.09	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
70	Tonga	0.09	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
71	Morocco	0.08	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
72	Gambia, The	0.07	Sub-Saharan Africa	Low income
73	Syrian Arab Republic	0.05	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income
74	Costa Rica	0.05	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
75	Algeria	0.05	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
76	Guyana	0.05	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
77	Jordan	0.05	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
78	Serbia	0.05	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
79	Saudi Arabia	0.04	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
80	Iraq	0.01	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
81	Georgia	0.01	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
82	Turkiye	0.01	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
83	Ecuador	0	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
84	Timor-Leste	0	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
85	Turkmenistan	0	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
86	Canada	0	North America	High income
87	Bhutan	0	South Asia	Lower middle income
88	Switzerland	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
89	Thailand	0	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
90	Chile	0	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
91	China	0	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
92	Brazil	0	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
93	Turks and Caicos Islands	0	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
94	Bolivia	0	Latin America & Caribbean	Lower middle income
95	Sweden	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
96	Slovak Republic	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
97	Bermuda	0	North America	High income
98	Cayman Islands	0	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
99	Cyprus	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
100	Czechia	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
101	Belarus	0	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
102	Germany	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
103	Denmark	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
104	Bosnia and Herzegovina	0	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
105	Singapore	0	East Asia & Pacific	High income
106	Egypt, Arab Rep.	0	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
107	Bulgaria	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
108	Spain	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
109	Estonia	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
110	Bangladesh	0	South Asia	Lower middle income
111	Finland	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
112	Fiji	0	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
113	Russian Federation	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
114	France	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
115	Romania	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
116	Ukraine	0	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
117	West Bank and Gaza	0	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Lower middle income
118	United Kingdom	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
119	Paraguay	0	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
120	Portugal	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
121	Uruguay	0	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
122	Gibraltar	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
123	Belgium	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
124	Poland	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
125	Monaco	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
126	United States	0	North America	High income
127	Palau	0	East Asia & Pacific	High income
128	Greece	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
129	Uzbekistan	0	Europe & Central Asia	Lower middle income
130	Azerbaijan	0	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
131	Hong Kong SAR, China	0	East Asia & Pacific	High income
132	Oman	0	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
133	Austria	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
134	New Zealand	0	East Asia & Pacific	High income
135	St. Martin (French part)	0	Latin America & Caribbean	High income
136	Hungary	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
137	India	0	South Asia	Lower middle income
138	Viet Nam	0	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
139	Ireland	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
140	Norway	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
141	Moldova	0	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
142	Armenia	0	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
143	Iran, Islamic Rep.	0	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Upper middle income
144	Netherlands	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
145	Iceland	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
146	Argentina	0	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
147	Israel	0	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
148	Italy	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
149	Malaysia	0	East Asia & Pacific	Upper middle income
150	United Arab Emirates	0	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
151	Kazakhstan	0	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
152	Kyrgyz Republic	0	Europe & Central Asia	Lower middle income
153	Andorra	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
154	Cambodia	0	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
155	Albania	0	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
156	Kuwait	0	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
157	Lao PDR	0	East Asia & Pacific	Lower middle income
158	Montenegro	0	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
159	Malta	0	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	High income
160	Sri Lanka	0	South Asia	Upper middle income
161	Lithuania	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
162	North Macedonia	0	Europe & Central Asia	Upper middle income
163	Afghanistan	0	Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan	Low income
164	Luxembourg	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
165	Latvia	0	Europe & Central Asia	High income
166	Mexico	0	Latin America & Caribbean	Upper middle income
167	Macao SAR, China	0	East Asia & Pacific	High income
168	Zimbabwe	0	Sub-Saharan Africa	Lower middle income
169	Maldives	0	South Asia	Upper middle income

People practicing open defecation, urban (% of urban population)