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Bhutan: 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 Bhutan from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240
20230
20220
20210.112
20200.483
20190.894
20181.31
20171.731
20162.157
20152.588
20143.025
20133.467
20123.915
20114.369
20104.828
20095.293
20085.762
20076.236
20066.715
20057.199
20047.711
20038.232
20028.759
20019.292
20009.368

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by World Health Organization, UNICEF. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-05.

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World Bank (2026). People practicing open defecation. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-people-practicing-open-defecation (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-05.

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