People using at least basic sanitation services, urban  (% of urban population): Q2 by country

Countries reporting
97
Highest
99.1%
Serbia
Lowest
6.3%
Madagascar
Median
62.8%
Years covered
18
2000–2017
Data points
1,663

What the numbers show

People using at least basic sanitation services, urban  (% of urban population): Q2 is currently reported for 97 countries. The highest value is 99.1% in Serbia; the lowest is 6.3% in Madagascar.

The median across all reporting countries is 62.8%, and the mean is 61.7%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 16.

Over the past decade 66 countries rose and 23 fell. The largest increase was in Madagascar (up 128.7%), and the largest decrease in Namibia (down 16.7%).

People using at least basic sanitation services, urban  (% of urban): full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Serbia 99.1% 2017 down 0.3% flat
2 Egypt 99.0% 2017 down 0.1% flat
3 Maldives 99.0% 2017 flat
4 Tunisia 98.8% 2017 up 2.9% rising
5 Jordan 98.6% 2017 down 0.1% flat
6 Armenia 98.4% 2017 up 0.2% flat
7 Turkey 98.3% 2017 up 1.4% flat
8 Ukraine 98.3% 2017 up 1.5% flat
9 Uruguay 98.0% 2017 down 0.1% flat
10 North Macedonia 97.8% 2017 up 5.7% rising
11 Albania 97.7% 2017 down 0.2% flat
12 Montenegro 97.4% 2017 down 2.0% flat
13 Bosnia and Herzegovina 97.2% 2017 down 1.4% flat
14 Kazakhstan 96.6% 2017 up 0.6% flat
15 Costa Rica 96.5% 2015 unchanged flat
16 Palestine 95.3% 2017 up 0.3% flat
17 Barbados 95.0% 2016 unchanged flat
18 Mexico 95.0% 2017 down 0.2% flat
19 Tajikistan 94.8% 2017 up 1.2% flat
20 Thailand 94.3% 2017 down 0.2% flat
21 Turkmenistan 93.9% 2017 unchanged flat
22 Trinidad and Tobago 93.4% 2015 unchanged flat
23 Cambodia 93.4% 2017 up 93.8% rising
24 Laos 93.0% 2017 up 24.4% rising
25 Georgia 92.0% 2017 down 1.9% flat
26 Belize 91.7% 2017 up 1.3% flat
27 Paraguay 91.2% 2017 up 2.6% flat
28 Belarus 90.9% 2017 down 0.5% flat
29 Kyrgyzstan 90.3% 2017 up 0.2% flat
30 Vietnam 89.7% 2017 up 2.9% rising
31 Panama 89.4% 2017 unchanged flat
32 Algeria 88.3% 2017 unchanged flat
33 Iraq 87.6% 2017 down 0.7% flat
34 Suriname 87.0% 2017 up 0.4% flat
35 Yemen 86.6% 2017 down 3.2% falling
36 El Salvador 85.9% 2017 unchanged flat
37 Guyana 84.2% 2017 up 5.7% rising
38 Colombia 82.5% 2017 up 2.3% flat
39 Dominican Republic 82.4% 2017 up 0.7% flat
40 Jamaica 82.1% 2017 up 0.8% flat
41 Moldova 81.4% 2017 up 5.3% rising
42 Saint Lucia 81.0% 2017 up 0.7% flat
43 Indonesia 76.4% 2017 up 17.9% rising
44 Honduras 76.2% 2017 up 9.5% rising
45 Guatemala 75.1% 2017 down 4.8% falling
46 Peru 75.0% 2017 up 7.7% rising
47 Nicaragua 72.3% 2017 up 13.6% rising
48 Philippines 66.6% 2017 down 0.6% flat
49 Pakistan 62.8% 2017 up 21.4% rising
50 Senegal 58.9% 2017 up 9.0% rising
51 Nepal 56.8% 2017 up 12.9% rising
52 Rwanda 56.3% 2017 up 8.7% rising
53 Mongolia 55.8% 2017 up 3.8% rising
54 Angola 54.8% 2017 up 32.2% rising
55 Cameroon 52.2% 2017 up 0.2% flat
56 Burkina Faso 51.9% 2017 up 9.7% rising
57 South Africa 51.2% 2017 down 2.2% flat
58 India 50.6% 2017 up 15.4% rising
59 Afghanistan 50.0% 2017 up 44.0% rising
60 Mali 49.8% 2017 up 2.6% flat
61 Sudan 49.5% 2017 up 118.1% rising
62 Mauritania 49.2% 2017 up 4.7% rising
63 Bolivia 43.8% 2017 up 30.6% rising
64 Nigeria 41.8% 2017 up 36.8% rising
65 Bangladesh 41.8% 2017 up 48.6% rising
66 Central African Republic 40.9% 2016 up 78.2% rising
67 Somalia 40.8% 2017 up 11.9% rising
68 Tanzania 40.4% 2017 up 123.3% volatile
69 Zimbabwe 38.6% 2017 down 2.5% flat
70 Eswatini 37.5% 2017 up 4.3% rising
71 Niger 35.1% 2017 up 14.9% rising
72 Comoros 33.9% 2017 up 12.2% rising
73 Mozambique 31.9% 2017 up 71.4% rising
74 Lesotho 31.8% 2017 up 52.8% rising
75 Guinea 30.5% 2017 up 39.5% rising
76 Gambia 30.5% 2017 down 10.6% falling
77 Namibia 29.9% 2017 down 16.7% falling
78 Haiti 29.6% 2017 up 51.5% rising
79 Sao Tome and Principe 28.9% 2017 up 53.4% rising
80 Uganda 28.2% 2017 up 1.1% flat
81 Cote d'Ivoire 25.4% 2017 up 7.6% rising
82 Burundi 23.8% 2017 up 15.0% rising
83 Zambia 21.5% 2017 up 4.2% rising
84 Malawi 20.6% 2017 up 1.8% flat
85 Guinea-Bissau 18.5% 2017 up 26.2% rising
86 Sierra Leone 17.8% 2017 up 44.2% rising
87 Kenya 17.2% 2017 up 9.5% rising
88 Gabon 17.2% 2017 down 13.8% falling
89 Democratic Republic of Congo 17.1% 2017 down 2.0% flat
90 Chad 17.1% 2017 down 3.1% falling
91 Ghana 14.3% 2017 down 0.2% flat
92 Togo 13.0% 2017 up 10.9% rising
93 Congo 12.6% 2017 up 44.8% rising
94 Liberia 12.0% 2017 up 54.2% rising
95 Benin 10.5% 2017 up 18.9% rising
96 Ethiopia 8.2% 2017 up 13.0% rising
97 Madagascar 6.3% 2017 up 128.7% volatile

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Indicator
People using at least basic sanitation services, urban  (% of urban population): Q2
Source
WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (washdata.org)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
97 places, 1,663 data points, 2000–2017
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