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Equatorial Guinea: People practicing open defecation, urban

2.55percent · 2017-50.2% since 2007

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 Equatorial Guinea from 2000 to 2017.

20002017

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20172.546
20162.546
20152.546
20142.546
20132.546
20122.973
20113.4
20103.827
20094.254
20084.681
20075.108
20065.535
20055.962
20046.389
20036.816
20027.243
20017.67
20008.097

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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, urban. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-people-practicing-open-defecation-urban (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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