World Vitals / Safe water, sanitation, and hygiene
Track access to safely managed water, sanitation, hygiene facilities, and surface-water use.
WASH pages should retain service ladder definitions and avoid mixing basic and safely managed access.
The primary charts now come from normalized database observations. Snapshot cards remain useful for latest values, but time series and paired relationships get chart types that match the question.
Database charts
These charts use normalized observations from the World Vitals database. Time-series charts show change; scatter plots show paired relationships where the data actually supports comparison.
World Bank
Withdrawals as a share of internal resources are a stress signal, not a household-access measure.
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World Bank
Basic access and safely managed access need to be charted separately because they answer different questions.
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World Bank
This series is stricter than basic access and better explains service quality gaps.
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World Bank
Sanitation charts should sit beside water charts, not be hidden inside a generic basic-needs score.
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World Bank
The prevalence rate gives a clearer trend than a single headline count.
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World Health Organization
WHO GHO global both-sex observations show the long rise and the recent reversal.
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World Bank
A second life-expectancy series helps cross-check WHO and World Bank health baselines.
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World Health Organization
WHO GHO shows a sustained decline in deaths before age five per 1,000 live births.
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World Bank
The trend is one of the strongest global health stories in the database.
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World Bank
Health spending as a share of GDP is a system-pressure measure, not a direct health outcome.
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World Bank WDI
Each dot is one global year where GDP per person overlaps life expectancy.
Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.
World Bank WDI
Each dot is one global year linking infrastructure access to under-five mortality.
Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.
World Bank WDI
Paired annual observations show whether basic water and sanitation progress are moving together.
Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.
World Bank WDI
This paired view separates land-system structure from emissions and climate impacts.
Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.
World Bank WDI
This relationship helps avoid treating expenditure as an automatic outcome measure.
Each dot is one paired year. Hover or focus a dot for both values and the year it represents.
Metric snapshots
Snapshot and live-rate cards are kept separate from historical charts so they do not pretend to show a trend.
WHO/UNICEF JMP estimate of people without safely managed drinking-water services.
WHO/UNICEF JMP / 2024WHO/UNICEF JMP estimate of people who continue to drink surface water.
WHO/UNICEF JMP / 2024Related topics
See drinking-water access, surface-water use, and hunger indicators from UN and WHO-linked sources.
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