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Chile: 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 Chile from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240
20230
20220
20210
20200.686
20190.756
20180.825
20170.889
20160.952
20151.015
20141.078
20131.14
20121.202
20111.264
20101.326
20091.388
20081.45
20071.511
20061.572
20051.634
20041.695
20031.755
20021.816
20011.878
20001.939

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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