Progress on Drinking Water (SDG target 6.1)

Access to safe drinking water in homes, healthcare facilities, schools and workplaces effectively reduces water-borne disease and malnutrition, which are leading causes of death among children under five.

73 % of the world’s population uses a safely managed drinking water service (SDG indicator 6.1.1, 2022)

Data provider: WHO and UNICEF through the Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP)
Available time series: 2000-2022
Number of countries (and areas) reporting in the last five years: 148
Proportion of world population covered by reporting in the last five years: 52%
Proportion of world economy covered by reporting in the last five years: 64%
Proportion of world land area covered by reporting in the last five years: 63%
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SDG target 6.1 is: ‘By 2030, achieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for all.’

To track progress towards the target, indicator 6.1.1 monitors the proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services.

Global status of indicator 6.1.1 Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services (2022)

Proportion of population (%)

Progress over time of indicator 6.1.1 Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services

Trend

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 6.1.1 Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water 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 regions of indicator 6.1.1 Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services (2022)

Status of different components of drinking water services

6.1.1 Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services (2022)

Proportion of population using an improved drinking-water source (2022)

Source data indicator 6.1.1 Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services

Country (or area), regional and world data for the latest year of reporting: 2007 - 2022

Country (or area), SDG region, world	Year	6.1.1 Proportion of population using safely managed drinking water services
Country (or area), SDG region, world	Year	Safely managed service	At least basic service	Basic service	Limited service	Unimproved	Surface water
Afghanistan	2022	30.03		52.14	1.17	10.48	6.18
Albania	2022	70.74		24.36	1.87	3.03	0
Algeria	2022	70.6		24.06	4.93	0.34	0.07
American Samoa	2021	89.85		9.39	0	0.76	0
Andorra	2022	90.64		9.36	0	0	0
Angola	2022		57.72		9.3	19.39	13.6
Anguilla	2017		97.48		0	2.52	0
Antigua and Barbuda	2022		98.36		0	1.42	0.22
Argentina	2016		99.04		0	0.49	0.47
Armenia	2022	82.41		17.56	0	0	0.03
Aruba	2016		97.87		0	1.96	0.17
Australia	2022		99.97		0	0.03	0
Australia and New Zealand	2022		99.97		0	0.03	0
Austria	2022	98.9		1.1	0	0	0
Azerbaijan	2022	71.61		26.03	1.06	1.29	0
Bahamas	2019		98.89		0	1.11	0
Bahrain	2022	98.9		1.02	0	0.08	0
Bangladesh	2022	59.11		38.99	1.19	0.1	0.62
Barbados	2022		98.51		0.27	1.22	0
Belarus	2022	93.1		6.08	0.29	0.53	0
Belgium	2022	99.74		0.26	0	0	0
Belize	2022		98.41		1.25	0.35	0
Benin	2022		67.36		8.01	21.89	2.74
Bermuda	2022		99.9		0	0.1	0
Bhutan	2022	73.34		25.79	0.65	0.19	0.03
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)	2022		94.11		0.14	1.35	4.4
Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba	2022	100		0	0	0	0
Bosnia and Herzegovina	2022	86.97		9.12	3.84	0.06	0
Botswana	2022		92.57		4.56	2.16	0.72
Brazil	2016-2022	87.26		12.34	0	0.41	1.27
British Virgin Islands	2022		99.86		0	0.14	0
Brunei Darussalam	2022		99.9		0	0	0.1
Bulgaria	2022	95.65		3.41	0	0.94	0
Burkina Faso	2022		49.51		29.48	20.9	0.11
Burundi	2022		62.44		19.35	14.65	3.57
Cabo Verde	2022		89.87		7.42	2.7	0
Cambodia	2022	29.13		48.88	11.54	3.18	7.28
Cameroon	2022		69.59		14.23	11.96	4.21
Canada	2022	99.04		0.18	0	0.78	0
Cayman Islands	2022		95.5		0	4.49	0.01
Central African Republic	2022	6.13		30.17	26.64	33.67	3.4
Central and Southern Asia	2022	67.52		25.79	3.69	2.16	0.84
Chad	2022	6.25		45.75	12.54	28.3	7.17
Channel Islands	2017	91.98		2.17	0	5.85	0
Chile	2022	98.77		1.23	0	0	0
China	2022		97.65		0.48	1.78	0.1
China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region	2022	100		0	0	0	0
China, Macao Special Administrative Region	2022	100		0	0	0	0
Colombia	2022	73.86		23.68	0.21	0.5	1.76
Comoros	2018-2019		80.21		10.86	8.93	0.59
Congo	2021	46.08		27.9	10.46	9.46	6.11
Cook Islands	2022		99.97		0	0.03	0
Costa Rica	2022	80.51		19.31	0.19	0	0
Croatia	2007	85.42		13.27	0	0.93	0.39
Cuba	2022		94.65		2.92	2.17	0.25
Curaçao	2017		99.5		0	0.5	0
Cyprus	2022	99.77		0	0	0.2	0.04
Czechia	2022	97.88		2	0	0.07	0.05
Côte d'Ivoire	2022	43.89		28.96	8.25	13.36	5.53
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	2021-2022	66.53		27.36	0.69	5.43	0.26
Democratic Republic of the Congo	2022	11.58		23.53	23.96	33.02	7.91
Denmark	2022	99.92		0.08	0	0	0
Djibouti	2022		76.17		14.77	6.8	2.27
Dominica	2017		95.42		0	4.58	0
Dominican Republic	2022	44.94		51.81	0.45	1.29	1.51
Eastern and South-Eastern Asia	2022	78.51		18.21	0.67	2.11	0.5
Ecuador	2022	67.09		28.61	0	2.57	1.73
Egypt	2022		98.77		0.24	0.98	0.01
El Salvador	2022		98.59		0.2	0	1.21
Equatorial Guinea	2017		64.67		2.96	26.04	6.34
Eritrea	2016		51.85		17.6	13.45	17.1
Estonia	2022	97.02		2.98	0	0	0
Eswatini	2022		73.47		9.91	7.43	9.19
Ethiopia	2022	13.24		38.28	28	16.03	4.45
Europe and Northern America	2022	94.33		4.54	0.34	0.76	0.04
Falkland Islands (Malvinas)	2020		95.31		0	4.69	0
Faroe Islands	2022		100		0	0	0
Fiji	2022	41.86		53.63	0.75	1.94	1.82
Finland	2022	99.64		0.36	0	0	0
France	2022	99.7		0.3	0	0	0
French Guiana	2022	91.49		2.87	0	5.64	0
French Polynesia	2022	81.81		18.19	0	0	0
Gabon	2022		86.93		7.97	3.48	1.63
Gambia	2022	47.67		37.97	5.91	8.39	0.05
Georgia	2022	69.14		25.84	2.74	2.28	0.01
Germany	2022	99.92		0.08	0	0	0
Ghana	2022	44.47		43.9	5.94	1.62	4.07
Gibraltar	2022	100		0	0	0	0
Greece	2022	98.88		1.12	0	0	0
Greenland	2022		100		0	0	0
Grenada	2017	89.92		5.71	1.16	0	3.21
Guadeloupe	2022	95.71		4.18	0	0.11	0
Guam	2022	99.06		0.64	0	0.3	0
Guatemala	2022	56.29		38.32	1.03	2.77	1.58
Guinea	2022		71.45		12.16	8.44	7.94
Guinea-Bissau	2022	23.87		37.9	14.87	22.46	0.89
Guyana	2022		95.86		2.47	0.87	0.8
Haiti	2022		67.42		9.71	22.87	0
Honduras	2022	65.21		30.6	1.06	3.14	0
Hungary	2022	100		0	0	0	0
Iceland	2022	100		0	0	0	0
India	2022		93.3		4.18	1.98	0.54
Indonesia	2022	30.27		63.84	0.87	4.19	0.83
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	2022	94.22		3.47	1.92	0.33	0.07
Iraq	2022	59.74		38.64	0.88	0	0.74
Ireland	2022	95.99		0	0	4.01	0
Isle of Man	2022	99.71		0.17	0	0.12	0
Israel	2022	99.47		0.53	0	0	0
Italy	2022	92.71		7.21	0	0.08	0
Jamaica	2022		91.1		5.33	1.86	1.72
Japan	2022	98.66		0.48	0	0.86	0
Jordan	2022	85.71		13.26	0.14	0.83	0.06
Kazakhstan	2021	89.35		6.09	1.94	2.54	0.08
Kenya	2022		62.86		8.66	9.34	19.14
Kiribati	2022	14.41		61.28	4.3	20.01	0
Kuwait	2022	100		0	0	0	0
Kyrgyzstan	2022	76.49		14.31	2.87	1.85	4.49
Lao People's Democratic Republic	2022	17.87		67.59	3.49	10.47	0.57
Latin America and the Caribbean	2022	75.23		22.4	0.41	0.85	1.1
Latvia	2022	97.11		1.78	0.68	0.42	0
Lebanon	2022	47.7		44.9	7.4	0	0
Lesotho	2022	28.22		45.75	10.63	10.25	5.14
Liberia	2022		75.61		9.98	4.61	9.8
Libya	2022		99.89		0	0.11	0
Liechtenstein	2022	100		0	0	0	0
Lithuania	2022	94.98		3.06	0	1.96	0
Luxembourg	2022	99.53		0.35	0	0.11	0
Madagascar	2022	22.24		31.23	4.52	30.55	11.46
Malawi	2022	17.76		54.11	20.86	5.3	1.97
Malaysia	2007-2022	93.94		3.21	0.35	2.49	0.73
Maldives	2022		99.56		0.05	0.39	0
Mali	2022		83.65		4.65	11.01	0.69
Malta	2022	99.77		0.23	0	0	0
Marshall Islands	2022		85.06		11.07	3.87	0
Martinique	2022	98.77		0.95	0	0.28	0
Mauritania	2022		77.81		8.92	13.27	0
Mauritius	2022		100		0	0	0
Mayotte	2017-2022	92.46		3.91	0	3.63	2.88
Mexico	2022	43.04		56.67	0	0.29	0
Micronesia (Federated States of)	2014-2020		90.11		0	9.89	7
Monaco	2022	100		0	0	0	0
Mongolia	2022	39.28		44.23	7.19	4.21	5.1
Montenegro	2022	85.12		13.74	0.55	0.58	0.01
Montserrat	2022		98.08		0	1.92	0
Morocco	2022	74.82		12.2	2.03	10.95	0
Mozambique	2022		63.2		9.79	16.69	10.33
Myanmar	2022	57.4		24.99	0.7	5.77	11.15
Namibia	2022		85.91		7.1	3.65	3.34
Nauru	2019		97		0	3	0
Nepal	2022	16.12		75.12	4.18	3.43	1.16
Netherlands	2022	99.97		0.03	0	0	0
New Caledonia	2022	96.87		2.67	0	0.46	0
New Zealand	2022	100		0	0	0	0
Nicaragua	2020	55.52		26.19	1.51	13.53	3.25
Niger	2022		48.9		19.63	28.65	2.82
Nigeria	2022	28.98		50.65	4.3	11.43	4.63
Niue	2022	93.54		3.47	0	2.99	0
North Macedonia	2022	80.45		17.4	1.58	0.53	0.05
Northern Africa and Western Asia	2022	76.9		15	5.71	1.94	0.44
Northern Mariana Islands	2022	90.64		9.36	0	0	0
Norway	2022	98.82		1.18	0	0	0
Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand)	2022		59.85		2.08	21.19	16.88
Oman	2022	90.85		1.59	7.3	0.23	0.03
Pakistan	2022	50.6		40.02	4.45	3.79	1.14
Palau	2022	90.44		9.13	0	0.43	0
Panama	2022		94.65		1.85	2.14	1.37
Papua New Guinea	2022		50.24		2.41	26.28	21.07
Paraguay	2022	64.22		35.38	0.4	0	0
Peru	2022	51.99		42.82	0.59	3.26	1.35
Philippines	2022	47.9		46.97	2.82	2.3	0
Poland	2022	88.91		1.46	0	9.63	0
Portugal	2022	95.16		4.1	0	0.74	0
Puerto Rico	2022	99.87		0.13	0	0	0
Qatar	2022	96.65		3.33	0	0.01	0
Republic of Korea	2022	99.28		0.72	0	0	0
Republic of Moldova	2022	75.22		16.8	1.54	6.43	0
Romania	2022	82.07		17.93	0	0	0
Russian Federation	2007-2022	76.23		20.82	0.62	2.33	0.78
Rwanda	2022		65.1		19.32	10.32	5.26
Réunion	2022	95.75		4.19	0	0.06	0
Saint Barthélemy	2022	100		0	0	0	0
Saint Helena	2022	89.23		9.87	0	0.9	0
Saint Kitts and Nevis	2017		98.61		0	1.39	0
Saint Lucia	2022		96.89		1.82	1.29	0
Saint Martin (French Part)	2022	96.63		3.3	0	0.07	0
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	2020	83.13		8.27	0	8.6	0
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2016-2018		97.73		0	2.27	0.51
Samoa	2022	62.19		36.85	0.28	0.58	0.1
San Marino	2022	100		0	0	0	0
Sao Tome and Principe	2022	36.3		41.04	20.32	0.46	1.87
Saudi Arabia	2022		98.65		0.67	0.68	0
Senegal	2022	26.69		59.56	2.73	10.85	0.17
Serbia	2022	75.08		20.6	3.87	0.44	0.02
Seychelles	2018-2022		96.42		0	3.58	3.77
Sierra Leone	2022	10.26		55.08	7.43	16.72	10.5
Singapore	2022	100		0	0	0	0
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	2017		95.31		0	4.69	0
Slovakia	2022	99.18		0.6	0.21	0	0
Slovenia	2022	98.27		1.23	0	0.5	0
Solomon Islands	2021		67.45		5.78	21.16	5.61
Somalia	2022		58.26		28.39	11.89	1.46
South Africa	2022		94.49		2.74	1.12	1.65
South Sudan	2022		41.19		37.28	13.52	8.02
Spain	2022	99.57		0.36	0	0.07	0
Sri Lanka	2022	47.13		42.18	1.79	6.81	2.09
State of Palestine	2022	80.33		18.11	1.21	0.34	0.01
Sub-Saharan Africa	2022	31.35		33.69	13.75	14.93	6.29
Sudan	2022		64.92		28.86	3.95	2.27
Suriname	2022	55.8		42.2	1.07	0.38	0.56
Sweden	2022	99.74		0	0	0.26	0
Switzerland	2022	96.7		3.3	0	0	0
Syrian Arab Republic	2022		94.08		5.83	0.09	0
Tajikistan	2022	55.29		26.65	2.56	3.41	12.09
Thailand	2022		100		0	0	0
Timor-Leste	2022		87.02		1.91	7.83	3.24
Togo	2022	19.42		51.57	6.18	12.77	10.05
Tokelau	2022		99.71		0	0.29	0
Tonga	2022	29.53		69.28	0.88	0.31	0
Trinidad and Tobago	2022		98.88		1.12	0	0
Tunisia	2022	74.3		22.88	1.61	1.21	0
Turkmenistan	2022	94.88		5.12	0	0	0
Turks and Caicos Islands	2022	47.09		51.72	0.98	0.21	0
Tuvalu	2022	8.71		90.55	0.4	0.34	0
Türkiye	2022		97.03		2.02	0.74	0.22
Uganda	2022	18.68		40.58	24.9	11.33	4.51
Ukraine	2022	87.62		5.97	5.67	0.26	0.48
United Arab Emirates	2022		100		0	0	0
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland	2022	99.8		0.2	0	0	0
United Republic of Tanzania	2022	11.34		49.46	16.19	10.87	12.14
United States Virgin Islands	2020	97.94		0.78	0	1.28	0
United States of America	2022	97.47		2.5	0	0.04	0
Uruguay	2022		99.51		0.49	0	0
Uzbekistan	2022	79.85		16.78	1.8	0.12	1.45
Vanuatu	2022		91.34		0.52	2.32	5.82
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)	2017-2022		93.33		0.47	6.2	1.38
Viet Nam	2022	57.78		40.18	0	2.04	0
Wallis and Futuna Islands	2022	68.88		30.38	0	0.74	0
World	2022	72.93		18.26	3.66	3.72	1.44
Yemen	2022		61.76		29.45	6.37	2.43
Zambia	2022		68.25		6.4	18.67	6.68
Zimbabwe	2022	26.52		35.78	14.52	16.32	6.87

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