Regional populations without basic drinking water services worldwide 2000-2020
Between 2000 and 2020, the number of people in Sub-Saharan Africa that lacked basic drinking water services increased from 350 million to 387 million. This accounted for more than half of the global population without basic drinking water services in 2020. At the turn of century, the number of people in Eastern and South-Eastern Asia without basic drinking water services totaled 379 million. However, by 2020 this figure had fallen to 133 million. Meanwhile, just 10 million people in Europe and Northern America lacked these services.
