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Afghanistan: People practicing open defecation, urban

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People practicing open defecation refers to the percentage of the population defecating in the open, such as in fields, forest, bushes, open bodies of water, on beaches, in other open spaces or disposed of with solid waste. Annual figures for Afghanistan from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240
20230
20220
20210
20200
20190.057
20180.372
20170.687
20161.002
20151.317
20141.632
20131.946
20122.261
20112.576
20102.891
20093.206
20083.521
20073.836
20064.15
20054.465
20044.78
20035.095
20025.41
20015.725
20005.725

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by World Health Organization, UNICEF. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Bank (2026). People practicing open defecation, urban. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-people-practicing-open-defecation-urban (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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