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.

57 % of the world’s population uses a safely managed sanitation service (SDG indicator 6.2.1a, 2022)

Data provider: WHO and UNICEF through the Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP)
Available data series: 2000-2022
Number of countries (and areas) reporting in the last five years: 139
Proportion of world population covered by reporting in the last five years: 86%
Proportion of world economy covered by reporting in the last five years: 92%
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 (2022)

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 (2022)

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 (2022)

Status of different components of sanitation services

6.2.1a Proportion of population using safely managed sanitation services (2022)

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: 2000 - 2022

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	2022		55.95		12.04	23.16	8.84
Albania	2022	56.35		42.95	0.57	0.13	0
Algeria	2022	62.41		23.42	10.82	3.36	0
American Samoa	2021-2022	36.99		17.15	44.32	1.53	0.79
Andorra	2022	100		0	0	0	0
Angola	2022		52.18		21.28	9.25	17.29
Anguilla	2017		96.7		2.38	0.38	0.54
Antigua and Barbuda	2022		97.4		0	1.97	0.62
Argentina	2014-2016	46.19		48.63	2.29	2.89	1.53
Armenia	2022	10.75		83.23	0.42	5.59	0.01
Aruba	2022		98.84		0	0.3	0.86
Australia	2022	95.82		4.18	0	0	0
Australia and New Zealand	2022	95.82		4.18	0	0	0
Austria	2022	99.67		0.3	0	0.03	0
Azerbaijan	2019	69.04		27.09	2.69	1.1	0.09
Bahamas	2019		94.93		3.32	1.53	0.22
Bahrain	2022	92.23		7.77	0	0	0
Bangladesh	2022	30.98		28.32	25.95	14.75	0
Barbados	2018-2022		98.09		1.91	0	0.82
Belarus	2022	75.04		24.52	0.02	0.42	0
Belgium	2022	94.9		4.59	0.51	0	0
Belize	2022		88.25		9.02	2.15	0.57
Benin	2022	2.7		16.79	19.97	12.04	48.5
Bermuda	2022		99.94		0	0.06	0
Bhutan	2022	50.51		27.43	10.01	12.05	0
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	2022		68.61		17.21	5.62	8.55
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	2022		95.4		4.6	0	0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2018	54.56		40.83	0.6	4.02	0
Botswana	2022		80.55		5.48	8.76	5.21
Brazil	2022	49.59		41.3	0.09	8.93	0.09
British Virgin Islands	2016		96.86		0	3.14	0
Brunei Darussalam	2022		99.48		0	0.52	0
Bulgaria	2022	73.46		12.6	13.94	0	0
Burkina Faso	2022	9.75		15.01	33.32	8.37	33.55
Burundi	2022		45.69		12.91	39.96	1.44
Cabo Verde	2022		83.05		6.73	1.68	8.54
Cambodia	2000-2022	36.73	10.19	39.99	7.97	3.23	12.08
Cameroon	2022		43.12		17.05	35.58	4.25
Canada	2022	83.93		14.66	0	1.41	0
Cayman Islands	2022		83.27		10.27	6.47	0
Central African Republic	2022	13.35		0.5	16.31	44.8	25.04
Central and Southern Asia	2022	50.79		26.12	11.43	2.68	8.99
Chad	2022	10.91		2.01	5.46	19	62.61
Channel Islands	2017	90		8.5	0	1.5	0
Chile	2022	95.32		4.68	0	0	0
China	2022	67.22		28.67	2.06	1.95	0.1
China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region	2022	96.5		0	0	3.5	0
China, Macao Special Administrative Region	2022	68.12		31.88	0	0	0
Colombia	2022	18.44		76.29	2.24	0.63	2.4
Comoros	2018-2019		35.91		13.19	50.9	0.59
Congo	2021		20.55		34.4	36.69	8.35
Cook Islands	2022		85.44		11.38	2.69	0.48
Costa Rica	2022	25.35		73.03	0.5	1.01	0.11
Croatia	2021	77.96		18.22	2.86	0.97	0
Cuba	2022	41.33		50.82	5.6	2.08	0.17
Curaçao	2017		98.95		0	0.78	0.27
Cyprus	2022	76.84		22.55	0	0.6	0
Czechia	2022	89.69		9.45	0.86	0.01	0
Côte d'Ivoire	2022	17.25		19.72	27.22	14.61	21.2
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	2022		84.77		0.63	14.6	0
Democratic Republic of the Congo	2022	13.04		3.14	17.57	54.41	11.85
Denmark	2022	98.8		0.8	0.4	0	0
Djibouti	2022	39.6		27.3	7.07	10.04	15.99
Dominica	2017		80.37		3.17	10.89	5.57
Dominican Republic	2022	43.13		45.55	7.84	1.65	1.83
Eastern and South-Eastern Asia	2022	64.21		29.61	3.09	2.03	1.07
Ecuador	2022	41.59		50.68	7.08	0	0.65
Egypt	2022	67.17		30.36	1.62	0.85	0.01
El Salvador	2022		87.55		12.02	0.43	0
Equatorial Guinea	2017		66.31		9.88	20.95	2.85
Eritrea	2016		11.94		9.76	11.29	67
Estonia	2022	90.42		8.64	0.7	0.24	0
Eswatini	2022		64.42		21.79	13.56	0.23
Ethiopia	2022	7.22		2.12	8.49	64.54	17.64
Europe and Northern America	2022	84.24		13.37	0.57	1.83	0
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	2022		100		0	0	0
Faroe Islands	2015		90.88		0	9.12	0
Fiji	2022	48.79		44.25	6.96	0	0
Finland	2022	90.01		9.44	0.55	0	0
France	2022	89.67		8.98	1.35	0	0
French Guiana	2022	75.02		18.51	0	6.47	0
French Polynesia	2022		97		0	3	0
Gabon	2022		49.9		28.99	19.09	2.02
Gambia	2022	27.99		19.73	11.68	40.53	0.07
Georgia	2022	24.08		62.18	0.79	12.95	0
Germany	2022	96.89		2.34	0.77	0	0
Ghana	2022	15.83		12.75	44.55	9.65	17.22
Gibraltar	2022		100		0	0	0
Greece	2022	92.16		6.84	1	0	0
Greenland	2022	0		62.5	0	37.5	0
Grenada	2017		91.49		2.21	2.75	3.54
Guadeloupe	2022		99.81		0	0.19	0
Guam	2016-2022		90.38		8.82	0.8	0.73
Guatemala	2022		69.62		11.14	18.12	1.12
Guinea	2022		31.27		29.31	32.27	7.15
Guinea-Bissau	2003-2022	15.44	5.64	12.4	17.74	45.98	8.43
Guyana	2022	44.22		46.77	8.32	0.4	0.29
Haiti	2022		37.48		28.81	15.98	17.73
Honduras	2022	52.61		31.79	8.81	2.64	4.15
Hungary	2022	87.84		10.14	2.02	0	0
Iceland	2022		98.78		1.22	0	0
India	2022	52.14		26.25	10.51	0	11.1
Indonesia	2022		88.16		6.57	1.08	4.19
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	2016-2022		90.36		9.64	0	0.4
Iraq	2022	52.77		45.73	0	1.5	0
Ireland	2022	79.8		9.46	6.8	3.95	0
Isle of Man	2022	84.82		15.18	0	0	0
Israel	2022	96.25		3.67	0	0.08	0
Italy	2022	79.03		20.85	0.1	0.01	0
Jamaica	2022		86.55		12.39	0.26	0.8
Japan	2022	99.14		0.8	0	0.06	0
Jordan	2022	82.34		14.81	1.65	1.1	0.1
Kazakhstan	2022		97.86		2.05	0.06	0.03
Kenya	2022	31.5		5.03	24.33	32.69	6.45
Kiribati	2022	24.79		20.39	16.9	5.16	32.75
Kuwait	2022	100		0	0	0	0
Kyrgyzstan	2022	92.64		5.23	2.14	0	0
Lao People's Democratic Republic	2022	61.13		18.39	3.01	1.32	16.15
Latin America and the Caribbean	2022	49.17		40.36	4.28	5.04	1.15
Latvia	2021	85.24		7.19	2.19	5.37	0
Lebanon	2022	25.67		73.53	0.8	0	0
Lesotho	2022	47.52		2.76	21.43	13.31	14.99
Liberia	2022		22.52		26.46	15.77	35.24
Libya	2022	23.83		68.28	7.15	0	0.75
Liechtenstein	2022	96.22		3.73	0	0.05	0
Lithuania	2022	95.31		0	1.43	3.26	0
Luxembourg	2022	95.8		1.79	2.39	0.03	0
Madagascar	2022	12.33		2.43	21.91	29.7	33.63
Malawi	2022	46.19		3.05	26.59	21.56	2.61
Malaysia	2016-2022	85.97		10.03	3.98	0.02	0.35
Maldives	2022		99.7		0.3	0	0
Mali	2022	15.92		34.29	16.96	28.29	4.54
Malta	2022	88.18		11.79	0	0.04	0
Marshall Islands	2022		81.46		6.53	3.33	8.68
Martinique	2022		99.49		0	0.51	0
Mauritania	2022		55.93		9.56	7.64	26.87
Mauritius	2017		95.46		3.96	0.38	0.2
Mayotte	2022		100		0	0	0
Mexico	2022	62.5		30.02	7.14	0.35	0
Micronesia (Federated States of)	2014-2020		90.45		0	9.55	9.5
Monaco	2022	100		0	0	0	0
Mongolia	2022	65.96		4	21.89	3.12	5.03
Montenegro	2022	57.4		40.41	0.25	1.9	0.04
Montserrat	2022		89.1		10.55	0	0.35
Morocco	2022	61.01		26.51	1.54	10.94	0
Mozambique	2022		37.38		5.05	37.98	19.59
Myanmar	2022	60.61		13.52	11.74	7.32	6.81
Namibia	2022		35.84		13.13	13.87	37.16
Nauru	2021		65.93		30.88	0.6	2.59
Nepal	2022	50.58		29.82	10.28	2.35	6.98
Netherlands	2022	97.5		0.17	2.33	0	0
New Caledonia	2022		100		0	0	0
New Zealand	2022	88.74		11.26	0	0	0
Nicaragua	2020		73.02		7.24	12.94	6.79
Niger	2022	8.12		8.29	10.03	8.57	64.99
Nigeria	2022	31.97		14.6	16.35	18.64	18.44
Niue	2022		97.43		0	2.07	0.5
North Macedonia	2022	12.18		86.8	0.47	0.44	0.11
Northern Africa and Western Asia	2022	64.5		28.42	2.68	3.77	0.63
Northern Mariana Islands	2022		80.33		19.1	0.41	0.16
Norway	2022	78.07		19.98	1.95	0	0
Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand)	2022		33.25		5.26	48.03	13.46
Oman	2022		99.32		0.68	0	0
Pakistan	2022		70.53		10.99	11.72	6.75
Palau	2022		99.02		0	0.98	0
Panama	2022		85.88		2.17	7.97	3.99
Papua New Guinea	2022		19.3		4.29	60.31	16.1
Paraguay	2022	55.19		39.38	3.53	1.58	0.32
Peru	2022	57.67		20.79	9.62	9.04	2.88
Philippines	2022	62.73		22.02	9.78	2.44	3.02
Poland	2022	97.92		1.04	1.04	0	0
Portugal	2022	92.76		6.91	0.34	0	0
Puerto Rico	2022	32.51		67.49	0	0	0
Qatar	2022	99.94		0	0	0	0.06
Republic of Korea	2022	99.45		0.37	0	0.18	0
Republic of Moldova	2022		84.91		4.82	10.13	0.13
Romania	2022	87.58		0.71	0.26	11.45	0
Russian Federation	2022	61.2		28.21	0	10.58	0
Rwanda	2022		73.83		13.96	10.35	1.86
Réunion	2022	76.69		22.78	0	0.53	0
Saint Barthélemy	2022		100		0	0	0
Saint Helena	2022		100		0	0	0
Saint Kitts and Nevis	2017		94.95		1.35	2.38	1.32
Saint Lucia	2022		83.36		10.4	0.05	6.19
Saint Martin (French Part)	2022		100		0	0	0
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	2022		99.92		0	0.08	0
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2018		89.7		1.82	5.94	2.53
Samoa	2022	42.93		55	1.08	0.87	0.13
San Marino	2022	90.19		9.81	0	0	0
Sao Tome and Principe	2022	34		13.84	5.67	4.3	42.19
Saudi Arabia	2022	79.92		15.42	4.35	0.3	0
Senegal	2022	14.06		46.12	17.21	14.9	7.71
Serbia	2022	25.39		72.52	0	2.03	0.06
Seychelles	2022		100		0	0	0
Sierra Leone	2022	15.39		7.53	34.28	26.37	16.43
Singapore	2022	100		0	0	0	0
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	2017		98.78		0	1.09	0.13
Slovakia	2022	82.49		15.04	2.42	0.05	0
Slovenia	2022	84.04		14.27	0.88	0.81	0
Solomon Islands	2021		35.02		5.93	14.51	44.55
Somalia	2022	32.56		8.01	16.99	21.11	21.32
South Africa	2022	71.71		5.93	13.78	8.44	0.15
South Sudan	2022		16.06		8.81	15.43	59.71
Spain	2022	89.97		9.95	0.08	0	0
Sri Lanka	2022		95.09		3.9	1.01	0
State of Palestine	2022	140.22		58.67	0.65	0.26	0.2
Sub-Saharan Africa	2022	24.35		10.31	17.92	30.86	16.56
Sudan	2020		36.89		8.37	37.44	17.3
Suriname	2022	25.16		64.81	6.08	2.73	1.21
Sweden	2022	95.56		3.3	0.7	0.44	0
Switzerland	2022	99.82		0.08	0.1	0	0
Syrian Arab Republic	2016-2022		94.98		4.59	0.43	0.68
Tajikistan	2022		96.75		2.62	0.32	0.32
Thailand	2022	26.32		72.7	0.95	0	0.03
Timor-Leste	2022		58.38		15.3	15.96	10.36
Togo	2022	5.76		13.44	27.55	13.78	39.47
Tokelau	2020-2022		96.8		3.2	0	0
Tonga	2022	32.05		63.25	4.34	0.28	0.09
Trinidad and Tobago	2022		93.92		5.94	0.15	0
Tunisia	2022	81.13		16.31	1.53	0.89	0.15
Turkmenistan	2022		99.82		0.06	0.12	0
Turks and Caicos Islands	2022	33.95		59.19	5.56	1.28	0.01
Tuvalu	2022	37.23		46.31	12.21	1.62	2.62
Türkiye	2022	78.69		20.56	0.34	0.27	0.15
Uganda	2022	17.8		3.22	17.14	58.03	3.82
Ukraine	2022	71.93		25.81	2.25	0	0
United Arab Emirates	2022	98.46		0.63	0.7	0.21	0
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	2022	98.12		0.99	0.72	0.17	0
United Republic of Tanzania	2022	25.11		5.5	19.49	43.58	6.32
United States Virgin Islands	2022		99.11		0	0.89	0
United States of America	2022	97.04		2.59	0	0.37	0
Uruguay	2022		98.32		1.01	0.51	0.15
Uzbekistan	2022	74.54		21.77	2.06	1.58	0.05
Vanuatu	2022		46.71		27.22	26.01	0.06
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	2021-2022	27.07		71.32	0	1.6	3
Viet Nam	2022	43.66		48.51	2.23	5.6	0
Wallis and Futuna Islands	2022		94.16		0	0	5.84
World	2022	56.6		24.17	7.15	6.83	5.25
Yemen	2022	19.16		35.68	5.01	31.57	8.57
Zambia	2022		36.3		21.62	35.67	6.41
Zimbabwe	2022	31.81		2.81	30.98	17.09	17.31

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