People using safely managed sanitation services (% of population)
Share of people using safely managed sanitation services by country. WHO/UNICEF JMP estimates show large gaps in safely treated, non-shared sanitation.
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Key Insights
- •Safely managed sanitation is often far lower than ‘basic sanitation’ because treatment/disposal must be safe, not just the facility type.
- •Many high-income countries are near-universal (≈100%), while several low-income and conflict-affected countries remain below 25%.
- •This metric directly reflects the strength of the entire sanitation service chain—containment, emptying, transport, and treatment.
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 66.9%)
About This Statistic
Safely managed sanitation is the highest rung of the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) sanitation ladder. It measures the share of a country’s population using an improved (basic) sanitation facility that is not shared with other households, where excreta are safely disposed of in situ or transported and treated off-site.
This indicator is more demanding than “basic sanitation” because it requires safe treatment or disposal, not just a toilet. It highlights major disparities between countries that have near-universal sewerage with effective treatment and those where pit latrines or septic systems are common but fecal waste is not reliably managed end‑to‑end—an often invisible public health risk.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Canada | 100.0% |
| 2 | Denmark | 100.0% |
| 3 | Finland | 100.0% |
| 4 | France | 100.0% |
| 5 | Germany | 100.0% |
| 6 | Greece | 100.0% |
| 7 | Iceland | 100.0% |
| 8 | Israel | 100.0% |
| 9 | Italy | 100.0% |
| 10 | Japan | 100.0% |
| 11 | South Korea | 100.0% |
| 12 | Kuwait | 100.0% |
| 13 | Netherlands | 100.0% |
| 14 | New Zealand | 100.0% |
| 15 | Norway | 100.0% |
| 16 | Portugal | 100.0% |
| 17 | Qatar | 100.0% |
| 18 | Saudi Arabia | 100.0% |
| 19 | Singapore | 100.0% |
| 20 | Spain | 100.0% |
| 21 | Sweden | 100.0% |
| 22 | Switzerland | 100.0% |
| 23 | United Arab Emirates | 100.0% |
| 24 | United Kingdom | 100.0% |
| 25 | United States of America | 100.0% |
| 26 | Afghanistan | 100.0% |
| 27 | Austria | 100.0% |
| 28 | Belgium | 100.0% |
| 29 | Cayman Islands | 99.0% |
| 30 | Ireland | 99.0% |
| 31 | Luxembourg | 99.0% |
| 32 | Seychelles | 99.0% |
| 33 | Barbados | 99.0% |
| 34 | Cyprus | 98.0% |
| 35 | Hungary | 98.0% |
| 36 | Poland | 98.0% |
| 37 | Türkiye | 98.0% |
| 38 | Uruguay | 98.0% |
| 39 | Bahrain | 98.0% |
| 40 | Croatia | 97.0% |
| 41 | Czech Republic | 97.0% |
| 42 | Maldives | 97.0% |
| 43 | Oman | 97.0% |
| 44 | Slovakia | 97.0% |
| 45 | Slovenia | 97.0% |
| 46 | Andorra | 97.0% |
| 47 | Bahamas | 97.0% |
| 48 | Kazakhstan | 96.0% |
| 49 | Ukraine | 96.0% |
| 50 | Greenland | 95.0% |
| 51 | Turkmenistan | 95.0% |
| 52 | Australia | 95.0% |
| 53 | Bhutan | 95.0% |
| 54 | Faroe Islands | 94.0% |
| 55 | Lithuania | 94.0% |
| 56 | Montenegro | 94.0% |
| 57 | Serbia | 94.0% |
| 58 | Armenia | 94.0% |
| 59 | Chile | 93.0% |
| 60 | Kyrgyzstan | 93.0% |
| 61 | Romania | 93.0% |
| 62 | Latvia | 92.0% |
| 63 | Russian Federation | 92.0% |
| 64 | Uzbekistan | 92.0% |
| 65 | Albania | 92.0% |
| 66 | Belarus | 91.0% |
| 67 | Antigua and Barbuda | 91.0% |
| 68 | Mauritius | 90.0% |
| 69 | Benin | 89.0% |
| 70 | Islamic Republic of Iran | 89.0% |
| 71 | Jordan | 89.0% |
| 72 | Costa Rica | 88.0% |
| 73 | Estonia | 88.0% |
| 74 | Tunisia | 88.0% |
| 75 | Dominica | 87.0% |
| 76 | Cuba | 86.0% |
| 77 | Moldova, Republic of | 86.0% |
| 78 | Trinidad and Tobago | 85.0% |
| 79 | Malaysia | 84.0% |
| 80 | Algeria | 84.0% |
| 81 | Suriname | 83.0% |
| 82 | Lebanon | 82.0% |
| 83 | Iraq | 81.0% |
| 84 | Argentina | 81.0% |
| 85 | Georgia | 80.0% |
| 86 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 80.0% |
| 87 | Myanmar | 79.0% |
| 88 | Colombia | 79.0% |
| 89 | Tajikistan | 79.0% |
| 90 | Thailand | 79.0% |
| 91 | Venezuela | 79.0% |
| 92 | Fiji | 76.0% |
| 93 | People's Republic of China | 75.0% |
| 94 | Bermuda | 75.0% |
| 95 | Indonesia | 74.0% |
| 96 | Paraguay | 73.0% |
| 97 | Peru | 72.0% |
| 98 | Mexico | 71.0% |
| 99 | Belize | 71.0% |
| 100 | Cape Verde | 70.0% |
| 101 | Egypt | 70.0% |
| 102 | Morocco | 69.0% |
| 103 | Panama | 69.0% |
| 104 | Botswana | 69.0% |
| 105 | El Salvador | 67.0% |
| 106 | Mongolia | 65.0% |
| 107 | Azerbaijan | 63.0% |
| 108 | Samoa | 62.0% |
| 109 | Ecuador | 61.0% |
| 110 | Libya | 61.0% |
| 111 | Vietnam | 61.0% |
| 112 | South Africa | 61.0% |
| 113 | India | 60.0% |
| 114 | North Korea | 60.0% |
| 115 | Pakistan | 58.0% |
| 116 | Brunei Darussalam | 58.0% |
| 117 | Guatemala | 57.0% |
| 118 | Sri Lanka | 56.0% |
| 119 | Nicaragua | 55.0% |
| 120 | Djibouti | 54.0% |
| 121 | Philippines | 51.0% |
| 122 | Nepal | 49.0% |
| 123 | Bulgaria | 48.0% |
| 124 | New Caledonia | 48.0% |
| 125 | Brazil | 48.0% |
| 126 | Timor-Leste | 46.0% |
| 127 | Honduras | 45.0% |
| 128 | Bolivia | 45.0% |
| 129 | Yemen | 43.0% |
| 130 | Virgin Islands, British | 43.0% |
| 131 | Mauritania | 41.0% |
| 132 | Bangladesh | 41.0% |
| 133 | Guyana | 40.0% |
| 134 | Namibia | 39.0% |
| 135 | Cambodia | 38.0% |
| 136 | Zimbabwe | 38.0% |
| 137 | Sudan | 36.0% |
| 138 | Jamaica | 35.0% |
| 139 | Dominican Republic | 34.0% |
| 140 | Gabon | 33.0% |
| 141 | Haiti | 32.0% |
| 142 | Nigeria | 32.0% |
| 143 | Senegal | 28.0% |
| 144 | Equatorial Guinea | 26.0% |
| 145 | Kenya | 26.0% |
| 146 | Angola | 26.0% |
| 147 | Ghana | 25.0% |
| 148 | Central African Republic | 24.0% |
| 149 | Mali | 24.0% |
| 150 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 24.0% |
| 151 | Eritrea | 23.0% |
| 152 | Burkina Faso | 23.0% |
| 153 | Cameroon | 21.0% |
| 154 | Cote d'Ivoire | 21.0% |
| 155 | Guinea-Bissau | 20.0% |
| 156 | Togo | 20.0% |
| 157 | United Republic of Tanzania | 20.0% |
| 158 | Republic of The Gambia | 19.0% |
| 159 | Lesotho | 19.0% |
| 160 | Malawi | 19.0% |
| 161 | Comoros | 18.0% |
| 162 | Rwanda | 18.0% |
| 163 | Guinea | 17.0% |
| 164 | Mozambique | 17.0% |
| 165 | Sierra Leone | 17.0% |
| 166 | Burundi | 16.0% |
| 167 | Republic of the Congo | 16.0% |
| 168 | Liberia | 16.0% |
| 169 | Uganda | 16.0% |
| 170 | Zambia | 16.0% |
| 171 | Malta | 15.0% |
| 172 | Solomon Islands | 15.0% |
| 173 | Madagascar | 13.0% |
| 174 | Papua New Guinea | 13.0% |
| 175 | Niger | 12.0% |
| 176 | South Sudan | 12.0% |
| 177 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 11.0% |
| 178 | Chad | 10.0% |
| 179 | Somalia | 10.0% |
| 180 | Ethiopia | 7.0% |
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Data Source
This data comes from WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (2022).
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