Guinea-Bissau - People practicing open defecation, rural (% of rural population)

People practicing open defecation, rural (% of rural population) in Guinea-Bissau was 18.00 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 20 years was 54.62 in 2000, while its lowest value was 18.00 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/).

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Year Value
2000 54.62
2001 52.79
2002 50.96
2003 49.13
2004 47.30
2005 45.47
2006 43.63
2007 41.80
2008 39.97
2009 38.14
2010 36.31
2011 34.48
2012 32.65
2013 30.82
2014 28.98
2015 27.15
2016 25.32
2017 23.49
2018 21.66
2019 19.83
2020 18.00

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Risk factors