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Bhutan: People practicing open defecation, rural

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
20210.196
20200.745
20191.295
20181.845
20172.394
20162.944
20153.494
20144.043
20134.593
20125.143
20115.692
20106.242
20096.792
20087.341
20077.891
20068.441
20058.99
20049.54
200310.09
200210.64
200111.189
200011.189

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, rural. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-people-practicing-open-defecation-rural (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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