• Global sanitation coverage by region 2020

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Regional coverage of safely managed sanitation facilities varies greatly around the world. Roughly 80 percent of the populations in Australia and New Zealand, and Europe and Northern America had access to safely managed services in 2020. In comparison, just 21 percent had access to these services in Sub-Saharan Africa. Since 2000, the number of people with access to safely managed sanitation services is estimated to have more than doubled worldwide.

Proportion of regional populations with access to sanitation facilities worldwide in 2020, by type

Characteristic	Safely managed	Basic	Limited	Unimproved	Open defecation
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July 2021

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2020

Supplementary notes

*SAFELY MANAGED: Use of improved facilities that are not shared with other households and where excreta are safely disposed of in situ or removed and treated offsite BASIC Use of improved facilities that are not shared with other households.
LIMITED: Use of improved facilities that are shared with other households.
UNIMPROVED: Use of pit latrines without a slab or platform, hanging latrines or bucket latrines.
OPEN DEFECATION: Disposal of human feces in fields, forests, bushes, open bodies of water, beaches or other open places, or with solid waste

Figures may not add up to 100 percent due to rounding.

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