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Egypt: 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 Egypt from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240
20230
20220
20210
20200.016
20190.033
20180.073
20170.164
20160.255
20150.346
20140.437
20130.528
20120.619
20110.709
20100.8
20090.89
20080.981
20071.072
20061.162
20051.254
20041.345
20031.436
20021.528
20011.619
20001.711

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by World Health Organization, UNICEF. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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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 2026-11-07.

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