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China: Population practising open defecation

0percent · 2024-100.0% since 2014

Population practising open defecation (%). WHO Global Health Observatory indicator WSH_SANITATION_OD. Annual figures for China from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240
20230
20220
20210
20200
20190
20180
20170
20161
20151
20141
20131
20121
20111
20101
20091
20081
20072
20062
20052
20042
20032
20022
20012
20003

Source

Published by World Health Organization. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Health Organization (2026). Population practising open defecation. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/who-wsh-sanitation-od (accessed 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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