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Cabo Verde: People practicing open defecation, urban

0.33percent · 2024-97.7% 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 Cabo Verde from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240.325
20231.696
20223.066
20214.437
20205.808
20197.178
20188.549
20179.919
201611.29
201512.66
201414.031
201315.401
201216.772
201118.143
201019.513
200920.884
200822.254
200723.625
200624.995
200526.366
200427.737
200329.107
200230.478
200131.848
200033.219

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

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