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Argentina: People practicing open defecation, urban

0percent · 2024-100.0% since 2014

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 Argentina from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240
20230
20220
20210
20200.576
20190.639
20180.701
20170.763
20160.824
20150.885
20140.947
20131.008
20121.069
20111.131
20101.192
20091.253
20081.315
20071.376
20061.437
20051.499
20041.56
20031.622
20021.622
20011.622
20001.622

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by World Health Organization, UNICEF. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). People practicing open defecation, urban. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-people-practicing-open-defecation-urban (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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