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| Last Updated:: 21/11/2022

Sanitation

Sanitation 

 

  •  Today, 1 in 4 people – 2 billion people – around the world lack safe drinking water. (WHO/UNICEF 2021)

 

  • Almost half of the global population – 3.6 billion people – lack safe sanitation. (WHO/UNICEF 2021)

 

  • 494 million people still practise open defecation. (WHO/UNICEF 2021)

 

  • 1 in 3 people – 2.3 billion people – around the world lack basic handwashing facilties at home. (WHO/UNICEF 2021)

 

  • Achieving universal access to safely managed sanitation by 2030 will require a four-fold increase in current rates of progress. (UN-Water 2021)

 

  • Every day, over 700 children under age 5 die from diarrhoea linked to unsafe water, sanitation and poor hygiene. (UNICEF, 2021)

 

  • Almost half of the schools in the world do not have handwashing facilities with soap and water. (WHO/UNICEF 2020)

 

  • 207 million people spend over 30 minutes per round trip to collect water from an improved source. (WHO/UNICEF 2019)

 

  • Globally, at least 2 billion people use a drinking water source contaminated with faeces. (WHO 2019)

 

  • 297,000 children under five years old – more than 800 every day – die every year from diarrhoeal diseases due to poor sanitation, poor hygiene, or unsafe drinking water. (WHO 2019)

 

  • Under-fives living in countries experiencing protracted conflict are 20 times more likely to die from causes linked to unsafe water and sanitation than from direct violence. (UNICEF, 2019)

 

  • 1 million deaths each year are associated with unclean births. Infections account for 26% of neonatal deaths and 11% of maternal mortality. (WHO/UNICEF 2019)

 

  • Approximately 50 litres of water per person per day are needed to ensure that most basic needs are met while keeping public health risks at a low level. (WHO, 2017)

 

Source: unwater.org Updated on 21st November, 2022