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China: 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 China from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240
20230
20220.104
20210.144
20200.215
20190.291
20180.372
20170.457
20160.546
20150.641
20140.74
20130.843
20120.952
20111.065
20101.183
20091.308
20081.438
20071.572
20061.711
20051.856
20042.006
20032.162
20022.322
20012.486
20002.531

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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