Lower middle income - People practicing open defecation, rural (% of rural population)

People practicing open defecation, rural (% of rural population) in Lower middle income was 17.07 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 20 years was 60.02 in 2000, while its lowest value was 17.07 in 2020.

Definition: People practicing open defecation refers to the percentage of the population defecating in the open, such as in fields, forest, bushes, open bodies of water, on beaches, in other open spaces or disposed of with solid waste.

Source: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply and Sanitation (http://www.wssinfo.org/).

See also:

Year Value
2000 60.02
2001 57.92
2002 55.78
2003 53.64
2004 51.49
2005 49.34
2006 47.18
2007 45.02
2008 42.85
2009 40.67
2010 38.49
2011 36.29
2012 34.10
2013 31.89
2014 29.70
2015 27.50
2016 25.31
2017 23.41
2018 21.25
2019 19.15
2020 17.07

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Risk factors