Progress on Household Drinking Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene, 2000-2020: Five Years into the SDGs
2021
This report, prepared by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), analyzes the availability and quality of drinking water, sanitation services, and hygiene facilities around the world in 2020. It tracks key metrics across a variety of regions and countries from 2000 to 220 and uses the data to assess progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The report targets inequalities by tracking open defecation, basic access to water, sanitation, and hygiene services, and safe management of those services disaggregated across relevant dimensions of inequality, including geography and socioeconomic status.
According to the report achieving universal coverage by 2030 will require a quadrupling of current rates of progress. Currently 1 in 4 people around the world lack access to safe drinking water, and these disparities only worsen looking across genders and fragile contexts. The report underscores that only few countries have reduced inequalities between the richest and poorest, as well as urban and rural areas. Data visualizations accompany the report, and the raw data can be downloaded for further exploration.
Progress on Household Drinking Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene, 2000-2020: Five Years into the SDGs
Source:
Progress on Household Drinking Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene, 2000-2020: Five Years into the SDGs. WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene 2021. https://data.unicef.org/resources/progress-on-household-drinking-water-sanitation-and-hygiene-2000-2020.