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Bangladesh: People practicing open defecation

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 Bangladesh from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240
20230
20220
20210
20200
20190.556
20181.252
20171.959
20162.678
20153.41
20144.153
20134.908
20125.675
20116.454
20107.245
20098.046
20088.859
20079.681
200610.514
200511.357
200412.209
200313.071
200213.941
200114.821
200015.686

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. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-people-practicing-open-defecation (accessed 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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