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Cuba: People practicing open defecation

0.17percent · 2024-74.6% 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 Cuba from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240.169
20230.17
20220.17
20210.17
20200.241
20190.311
20180.382
20170.453
20160.523
20150.594
20140.665
20130.736
20120.807
20110.879
20100.952
20091.025
20081.098
20071.171
20061.245
20051.319
20041.393
20031.468
20021.545
20011.625
20001.706

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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