High income - People practicing open defecation, urban (% of urban population)

People practicing open defecation, urban (% of urban population) in High income was 0.001 as of 2020. Its highest value over the past 20 years was 0.055 in 2000, while its lowest value was 0.001 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 0.055
2001 0.053
2002 0.050
2003 0.048
2004 0.043
2005 0.040
2006 0.037
2007 0.034
2008 0.031
2009 0.028
2010 0.025
2011 0.022
2012 0.019
2013 0.015
2014 0.012
2015 0.003
2016 0.002
2017 0.002
2018 0.002
2019 0.001
2020 0.001

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Risk factors