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World Vitals / Safe water, sanitation, and hygiene

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

Track access to safely managed water, sanitation, hygiene facilities, and surface-water use.

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WASH pages should retain service ladder definitions and avoid mixing basic and safely managed access.

Every chart below is backed by the World Vitals metric registry. Live-looking values are marked as estimated rates; annual and snapshot values keep their source year visible.

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Waterlatest snapshot

Without safely managed drinking water

2.10B

WHO/UNICEF JMP estimate of people without safely managed drinking-water services.

WHO/UNICEF JMP / 2024
Waterlatest snapshot

Drinking surface water

106.00M

WHO/UNICEF JMP estimate of people who continue to drink surface water.

WHO/UNICEF JMP / 2024

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