Progress on Sanitation (SDG target 6.2)

Adequate sanitation and hygiene services at home, in education settings and workplaces are essential to make sure that women can participate in society on equal terms.

54 % of the world’s population uses a safely managed sanitation service (SDG indicator 6.2.1a, 2020)

Data provider: WHO and UNICEF through the Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP)
Available data series: 2000-2020
Number of countries (and areas) reporting in the last five years: 126
Proportion of world population covered by reporting in the last five years: 82%
Proportion of world economy covered by reporting in the last five years: 91%
Proportion of world land area covered by reporting in the last five years: 82%
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SDG target 6.2 is: ‘By 2030, achieve access to adequate and equitable sanitation and hygiene for all and end open defecation, paying special attention to the needs of women and girls and those in vulnerable situations.’

To track progress towards the target, indicator 6.2.1a monitors the proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services.

Global status of indicator 6.2.1a Proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services (2016-2020)

Proportion of population (%)

Progress over time of indicator 6.2.1a Proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services

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SDG Progress Report

Global target: of people have access to safe water.
Current status: % has access to safe water.
Current rate of progress between -1 and : % of the world population gained access to safe drinking water.
Rate of progress required to reach target: % of population need to gain access to safe water per year.
On track to reach target:
With current rate of progress, target will be reached by year:

Status in different countries (or areas) of indicator 6.2.1a Proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services (2020)

Australia and New Zealand
Eastern and South-Eastern Asia

Central and Southern Asia
Latin America and the Caribbean

Europe and Northern America
Sub-Saharan Africa

Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand)
Northern Africa and Western Asia

Status in different SDG regions of indicator 6.2.1a Proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services (2020)

Status of different components of sanitation services

6.2.1a Proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services (2020)

Source data indicator 6.2.1a Proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services

Country (or area), regional and world data for the latest year of reporting: 2005 - 2020

Country (or area), SDG region, world	Year	6.2.1a Proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services
Country (or area), SDG region, world	Year	Safely managed service	At least basic service	Basic service	Limited service	Unimproved	Open defecation
Afghanistan	2020		50.5		10.94	27.77	10.78
Albania	2020	47.69		51.61	0.57	0.13	0
Algeria	2020	17.61		68.35	10.51	3.53	0
American Samoa	2020		54.45		44.58	0.27	0.7
Andorra	2020	100		0	0	0	0
Angola	2020		51.66		21	9.37	17.97
Anguilla	2017		96.7		2.38	0.38	0.54
Antigua and Barbuda	2017		87.5		4.17	8.06	0.26
Argentina	2014-2016	51.26		44.15	1.98	2.6	1.58
Armenia	2020	69.33		24.61	0.43	5.63	0.01
Aruba	2016		97.54		0	0.98	1.47
Australia	2020	74.26		25.73	0	0.01	0
Australia and New Zealand	2020	75.52		24.47	0	0.01	0
Austria	2020	99.64		0.33	0	0.03	0
Azerbaijan	2019	21.04		75.09	2.69	1.1	0.09
Bahamas	2019		94.93		3.32	1.53	0.22
Bahrain	2020	91.23		8.77	0	0	0
Bangladesh	2020	38.67		15.5	23.85	21.99	0
Barbados	2018-2020		98.09		1.91	0	0.82
Belarus	2020	73.9		24.01	1.64	0.46	0
Belgium	2020	88.82		10.67	0.51	0	0
Belize	2020		88.21		9.05	2.17	0.57
Benin	2020		16.96		19.66	11.8	51.58
Bermuda	2020		99.9		0	0.1	0
Bhutan	2020	65.22		11.29	9.85	13.64	0
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	2020	52.92		12.83	17.32	7.13	9.79
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	2005		98.66		0	1.34	0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2018	40.32		55.07	0.6	4.02	0
Botswana	2020		80.03		5.57	4.59	9.81
Brazil	2020	48.71		41.37	0.1	9.52	0.3
British Virgin Islands	2016		96.86		0	3.14	0
Brunei Darussalam	2015		96.35		0	1.05	2.6
Bulgaria	2020	72.23		13.81	13.96	0	0
Burkina Faso	2020		21.66		32.29	6.12	39.92
Burundi	2020		45.73		12.63	39.06	2.58
Cabo Verde	2020		79.12		6.44	0	14.45
Cambodia	2020		68.77		8	3.95	19.28
Cameroon	2020		44.63		15.06	34.77	5.55
Canada	2020	84.37		14.66	0	0.97	0
Cayman Islands	2016		83.65		11.9	4.45	0
Central African Republic	2020	13.6		0.51	15.78	44.95	25.15
Central and Southern Asia	2020	46.57		24.72	12.25	4.9	11.56
Chad	2020	10.14		1.93	5.23	18.63	64.07
Channel Islands	2017	81.5		17	0	1.5	0
Chile	2020	78.6		21.4	0	0	0
China	2020	69.66		22.72	2.55	4.76	0.32
China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region	2020	85.92		10.58	0	3.5	0
China, Macao Special Administrative Region	2020	66.56		33.44	0	0	0
Colombia	2020	18.31		75.37	3.31	0.43	2.59
Comoros	2018-2019		35.91		13.19	50.9	0.59
Congo	2020		20.46		34.23	36.86	8.45
Cook Islands	2012-2020		99.09		0	0.91	1.12
Costa Rica	2020	30.2		67.71	0.76	1.2	0.13
Croatia	2020	67.79		28.78	2.46	0.98	0
Cuba	2020	36.64		54.72	1.66	6.74	0.24
Curaçao	2017		98.95		0	0.78	0.27
Cyprus	2020	77.08		22.31	0	0.6	0
Czechia	2020	85.2		13.93	0.86	0.01	0
Côte d'Ivoire	2020		34.57		22.54	17.64	25.26
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	2020		84.67		0.63	14.71	0
Democratic Republic of the Congo	2020	12.69		2.7	20.13	52.46	12.03
Denmark	2020	91.89		7.71	0.4	0	0
Djibouti	2020	37.08		29.64	7.05	10.04	16.18
Dominica	2017		80.37		3.17	10.89	5.57
Dominican Republic	2020		87.18		9.14	1.43	2.25
Eastern and South-Eastern Asia	2020	60.22		30.93	3.42	3.83	1.61
Ecuador	2020	41.63		49.89	7.35	0.22	0.91
Egypt	2020	67.06		30.26	1.62	1.06	0
El Salvador	2020		82.45		16.78	0.47	0.3
Equatorial Guinea	2017		66.31		9.88	20.95	2.85
Eritrea	2016		11.94		9.76	11.29	67
Estonia	2020	93.06		6.08	0.7	0.16	0
Eswatini	2020		64.29		21.63	10.26	3.81
Ethiopia	2020	6.68		2.23	8.83	65.27	17
Europe and Northern America	2020	77.75		19.82	0.59	1.84	0
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	2020		100		0	0	0
Faroe Islands	2015		90.88		0	9.12	0
Fiji	2020		99.16		0.84	0	0
Finland	2020	84.1		15.35	0.55	0	0
France	2020	78.59		20.06	1.35	0	0
French Guiana	2020		92.45		0	7.55	0
French Polynesia	2020		97		0	3	0
Gabon	2020		49.82		28.89	19.27	2.01
Gambia	2020	28.97		17.9	13.15	39.88	0.1
Georgia	2020	34.42		51.35	0.97	13.26	0.01
Germany	2020	97.13		2.1	0.77	0	0
Ghana	2020	13.32		10.38	47.44	11.08	17.78
Gibraltar	2020		100		0	0	0
Greece	2020	91.72		7.28	1.01	0	0
Greenland	2020	91.89		7.71	0.4	0	0
Grenada	2017		91.49		2.21	2.75	3.54
Guadeloupe	2020		99.69		0	0.31	0
Guam	2016		90.35		8.82	0.1	0.73
Guatemala	2020		67.93		10.88	19.17	2.02
Guinea	2020		29.78		28.19	30.22	11.81
Guinea-Bissau	2020	12.16		6.06	13.59	57.85	10.33
Guyana	2020		85.78		10.24	3.37	0.61
Haiti	2020		37.12		28.47	16.28	18.13
Honduras	2020	49.68		34.1	9.26	2.79	4.18
Hungary	2020	87.78		10.2	2.02	0	0
Iceland	2020	83.69		15.09	1.22	0	0
India	2020	45.91		25.36	12.1	1.71	14.93
Indonesia	2020		86.46		6.08	1.35	6.11
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	2016-2020		90.27		9.73	0	0.37
Iraq	2020	42.88		57.09	0	0.03	0
Ireland	2020	82.9		8.44	6.95	1.71	0
Israel	2020	94.96		4.99	0	0.05	0
Italy	2020	95.78		4.1	0.1	0.01	0
Jamaica	2020		86.61		12.34	0.25	0.8
Japan	2020	81.43		18.49	0	0.08	0
Jordan	2020	82.27		14.81	1.66	1.15	0.11
Kazakhstan	2020		97.87		2.04	0.09	0
Kenya	2020		32.7		25.47	33.32	8.51
Kiribati	2020	26.66		18.91	16.53	8.12	29.77
Kuwait	2020	100		0	0	0	0
Kyrgyzstan	2020	92.47		5.42	2.11	0	0
Lao People's Democratic Republic	2020	61.38		18.1	2.68	1.35	16.49
Latin America and the Caribbean	2020	34.07		54.97	4.22	5.23	1.51
Latvia	2020	83.41		9.01	2.19	5.39	0
Lebanon	2020	16.28		82.92	0.8	0	0
Lesotho	2020	47.62		2.7	21.1	6.59	21.99
Liberia	2020		18.16		29.33	14.82	37.68
Libya	2020	21.62		70.49	7.15	0	0.75
Liechtenstein	2020	98.75		1.2	0	0.05	0
Lithuania	2020	93.94		0	2.11	3.95	0
Luxembourg	2020	96.78		0.81	2.38	0.03	0
Madagascar	2020	10.38		1.93	20.27	25.04	42.38
Malawi	2020	24.21		2.34	13.49	55.5	4.46
Malaysia	2016-2018	77.45		22.13	0	0.42	0.28
Maldives	2020		99.16		0.3	0.55	0
Mali	2020	19.92		25.47	17.32	32.35	4.94
Malta	2020	91.87		8.1	0	0.04	0
Marshall Islands	2020		84.15		5.53	0.57	9.75
Martinique	2020		99.53		0	0.47	0
Mauritania	2020		49.83		7.64	11.85	30.67
Mauritius	2017		95.5		3.96	0.4	0.13
Mayotte	2020		100		0	0	0
Mexico	2020	57.34		35.08	6.79	0.69	0.1
Micronesia (Federated States of)	2014-2019		88.31		0	11.69	9.5
Monaco	2020	100		0	0	0	0
Mongolia	2020	55.54		12.2	21.07	2.76	8.42
Montenegro	2020	45.44		52.33	0.25	1.94	0.04
Montserrat	2020		89.1		10.55	0.35	0
Morocco	2020	39.32		47.93	1.53	9.48	1.73
Mozambique	2020		37.2		4.97	37.08	20.74
Myanmar	2020	60.71		12.92	11.59	7.78	7
Namibia	2020		35.26		12.8	4.78	47.16
Nauru	2017		65.6		30.73	1.09	2.59
Nepal	2020	48.64		27.97	11.05	2.55	9.78
Netherlands	2020	97.5		0.19	2.31	0	0
New Caledonia	2020		100		0	0	0
New Zealand	2020	82.19		17.81	0	0	0
Nicaragua	2020		73.02		7.24	12.94	6.79
Niger	2020	16.19		0	10.08	7.06	68.11
Nigeria	2020	30.51		12.21	19.54	19.08	18.66
Niue	2020		95.54		0	4.46	0
North Macedonia	2020	12.2		86.13	0.85	0.69	0.13
Northern Africa and Western Asia	2020	41.73		46.72	2.95	5.78	2.82
Northern Mariana Islands	2020		79.12		18.81	1.91	0.16
Norway	2020	65.39		32.66	1.95	0	0
Oman	2020		99.32		0.68	0	0
Pakistan	2020		68.4		10.53	13.77	7.3
Palau	2020		99.62		0	0.38	0
Panama	2020		84.57		2.58	8.65	4.19
Papua New Guinea	2020		19.22		4.28	60.37	16.13
Paraguay	2020	60.13		32.59	3.47	3.47	0.34
Peru	2020	52.81		25.77	8.86	8.17	4.4
Philippines	2020	60.64		21.62	11.12	2.84	3.79
Poland	2020	90.54		9.46	0	0	0
Portugal	2020	85.08		14.52	0.34	0.06	0
Puerto Rico	2020	32.51		67.49	0	0	0
Qatar	2020	97.2		2.8	0	0	0
Republic of Korea	2020	99.94		0	0	0.06	0
Republic of Moldova	2020		78.73		11.22	9.92	0.13
Romania	2020	83.14		3.93	0.26	12.67	0
Russian Federation	2020	60.82		28.57	0	10.61	0
Rwanda	2020		68.83		15.39	13.81	1.97
Réunion	2020		99.54		0	0.46	0
Saint Barthélemy	2020		100		0	0	0
Saint Helena	2020		100		0	0	0
Saint Kitts and Nevis	2017		94.95		1.35	2.38	1.32
Saint Lucia	2020		83.37		10.38	0.05	6.2
Saint Martin (French Part)	2020		100		0	0	0
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	2020		99.96		0	0.04	0
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2018		87.18		2.98	6.48	3.36
Samoa	2020	47.72		49.04	2.7	0.39	0.15
San Marino	2020	70.37		29.63	0	0	0
Sao Tome and Principe	2020	34.66		12.96	5.8	3.95	42.63
Saudi Arabia	2020	59.11		40.89	0	0	0
Senegal	2020	24.12		32.65	17.29	14.68	11.25
Serbia	2020	18.35		79.54	0	2.07	0.03
Seychelles	2020		100		0	0	0
Sierra Leone	2020	14.05		2.46	37.92	29.18	16.39
Singapore	2020	100		0	0	0	0
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	2017		98.78		0	1.09	0.13
Slovakia	2020	81.93		15.6	2.42	0.05	0
Slovenia	2020	71.55		26.55	0.88	1.02	0
Solomon Islands	2020		34.76		5.86	14.6	44.79
Somalia	2020	31.52		7.79	16.92	20.65	23.12
South Africa	2020		78.47		14.76	6.54	0.22
South Sudan	2020		15.84		8.73	15.3	60.13
Spain	2020	95.67		4.24	0.08	0.02	0
Sri Lanka	2020		93.65		3.97	2.37	0
State of Palestine	2020	133.39		63.77	2.09	0.47	0.28
Sub-Saharan Africa	2020	21.06		11.63	18.53	30.79	17.99
Sudan	2020		36.89		8.37	30.73	24.01
Suriname	2020	25.18		64.77	6.09	2.74	1.22
Sweden	2020	94.93		4.36	0.7	0.01	0
Switzerland	2020	99.65		0.25	0.1	0	0
Syrian Arab Republic	2016-2020		89.69		9.81	0.5	0.68
Tajikistan	2020		96.77		2.6	0.63	0
Thailand	2020	25.93		72.78	1.25	0.03	0
Timor-Leste	2020		56.77		9.56	15.46	18.22
Togo	2020	9.13		9.47	26.9	9.35	45.15
Tokelau	2020		96.8		3.2	0	0
Tonga	2020	33.8		59.09	6.03	1.06	0.02
Trinidad and Tobago	2020		93.92		5.94	0.15	0
Tunisia	2020	80.76		16.68	1.53	1.03	0
Turkmenistan	2020		99.41		0.41	0.18	0
Turks and Caicos Islands	2018		87.99		0	10.41	1.6
Tuvalu	2018	6.12		77.63	7.51	0	8.75
Türkiye	2020	78.43		20.8	0.35	0.27	0.15
Uganda	2020		19.79		17.62	57.91	4.68
Ukraine	2020	71.96		25.78	2.26	0	0
United Arab Emirates	2020	99.23		0	0.77	0	0
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	2020	98.1		1.01	0.72	0.17	0
United Republic of Tanzania	2020	26.33		5.43	18.66	38.68	10.89
United States Virgin Islands	2020		99.37		0	0.63	0
United States of America	2020	98.26		1.42	0	0.32	0
Uruguay	2020		98.05		1.19	0.54	0.21
Uzbekistan	2020		100		0	0	0
Vanuatu	2020		52.71		15.53	31.46	0.3
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	2020	23.07		72.69	0	1.22	3.02
Viet Nam	2020		89.25		4.01	3.81	2.93
Wallis and Futuna Islands	2020		92.95		0	0	7.05
World	2020	53.95		24.36	7.44	7.91	6.34
Yemen	2020	18.84		35.28	4.98	31.17	9.73
Zambia	2020		31.9		19.8	37.05	11.25
Zimbabwe	2020	25.65		9.54	30.23	11.07	23.5

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