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Bhutan: 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 Bhutan from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240
20230
20220
20210
20200.126
20190.332
20180.537
20170.742
20160.947
20151.152
20141.358
20131.563
20121.768
20111.973
20102.178
20092.384
20082.589
20072.794
20062.999
20053.204
20043.41
20033.615
20023.82
20014.025
20004.025

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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