Sub-saharan africa
Países (y zonas) de la región
Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Camerún, Chad, Comoras, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Eritrea, Eswatini, Etiopía, Gabón, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Ecuatorial, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malí, Mauricio, Mauritania, Mayotte, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Níger, República Centroafricana, República Democrática del Congo, República Unida de Tanzanía, Reunión, Rwanda, Santo Tomé y Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leona, Somalia, Sudáfrica, Sudán del Sur, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, ZimbabweLand
- Total area: ---
- Land area: 23,890,863 km2 (2022)
- Land use by sector: 45% agriculture, 26% forest and 29% other (2022)
People
- Total population: 1,259,902,353 people (2023)
- Population density: 51 people per km2 (2022)
- Urbanisation: 43 % lives in urban areas and 57 % lives in rural areas (2023)
Economía
- Total GDP: 5,429,362,043,571 USD per year (2023)
- GDP per capita: 4,309 USD per year (2023)
- Value added by sector: 17% from agriculture, 45% from services and 27% from industry (2023)
Instantánea del ODS 6 Sub-saharan africa
Agua potable
6.1.1 Proporción de la población que utiliza servicios de suministro de agua potable gestionados sin riesgos in sub-saharan africa, progress over time
Figure 1 introduction
6.1.1 Proporción de la población que utiliza servicios de suministro de agua potable gestionados sin riesgos in sub-saharan africa, by service level and location (2022)
Figure 2 introduction
Saneamiento e higiene
6.2.1a Proporción de la población que utiliza servicios de saneamiento gestionados sin riesgos in sub-saharan africa, progress over time
6.2.1a Proporción de la población que utiliza servicios de saneamiento gestionados sin riesgos in sub-saharan africa, by service level and location (2022)
6.2.1b Proporción de la población que dispone de instalaciones para el lavado de manos con agua y jabón en el hogar in sub-saharan africa, by service level and location (2022)
Calidad del agua y aguas residuales
Number of countries (and areas) with different levels of wastewater treatment in sub-saharan africa, by source (2017-2022)
Change in 6.3.1 Proporción del flujo de aguas residuales tratadas (de manera adecuada) > Domésticas in sub-saharan africa, between 2022 and 2024
In the below chart, the regional value is displayed in accent colour. The values of the following countries (or areas) in the region are displayed in grey: África Subsahariana, Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Camerún, Cabo Verde, República Centroafricana, Chad, Comoras, Mayotte, Congo, República Democrática del Congo, Benin, Guinea Ecuatorial, Etiopía, Eritrea, Djibouti, Gabón, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malí, Mauritania, Mauricio, Mozambique, Namibia, Níger, Nigeria, Guinea-Bissau, Reunión, Rwanda, Santo Tomé y Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leona, Somalia, Sudáfrica, Zimbabwe, Sudán del Sur, Eswatini, Togo, Uganda, República Unida de Tanzanía, Burkina Faso, Zambia
Domestic wastewater flow generated, delivered to treatment, and safely treated in sub-saharan africa, by sanitation facility (2024)
Of the total domestic wastewater flow generated in África Subsahariana, 16 % comes from sewers, 28 % from septic tanks and 56 % from other sanitation facilities. The below chart shows how much of the generated flow from each sanitation facility type that is delivered to treatment and then safely treated.
6.3.2 Proportion of bodies of water with good ambient water quality in sub-saharan africa (2020-2023)
Uso y escasez de agua
Water resources and withdrawal in sub-saharan africa, total and per capita
Renewable water resources, regional average: 4,886 m3 per capita (2020)
Water withdrawal, regional average: 92 m3 per capita (2020)
Renewable water resources, water withdrawal and environmental flow requirements for all reporting countries (and areas) in the region ( - 2020):
6.4.2 Nivel de estrés hídrico: extracción de agua dulce en proporción a los recursos de agua dulce disponibles in sub-saharan africa, change over time
6.4.1 Cambio en el uso eficiente de los recursos hídricos con el paso del tiempo in sub-saharan africa, progress over time
Water-use efficiency and its components, by sector, for all reporting countries (and areas) in sub-saharan africa (2021)
Water-use efficiency for ‘Agriculture, forestry and fishing’ only takes into account the proportion of gross value added that comes from irrigated agriculture, since that activity is associated with water withdrawal (other activities are rain-fed).
Gestión de recursos hídricos
6.5.1 Grado de implementación de la gestión integrada de los recursos hídricos (0-100) in sub-saharan africa, progress over time, by dimension
Nivel de implementación de la GIRH (0-100): Very low (0-10) – Low (11-30) – Medium-low (31-50) – Medium-high (51-70) – High (71-90) – Very high (91-100)
6.5.2 Proporción de la superficie de cuencas transfronterizas sujetas a arreglos operacionales para la cooperación en materia de aguas in sub-saharan africa, progress over time, by component
Very low (0-10) – Low (11-30) – Medium-low (31-50) – Medium-high (51-70) – High (71-90) – Very high (91-100)