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Gambia: People practicing open defecation, rural

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 Gambia from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240
20230
20220
20210.3
20200.737
20191.173
20181.609
20172.046
20162.482
20152.918
20143.355
20133.791
20124.227
20114.663
20105.1
20095.536
20085.972
20076.409
20066.845
20057.281
20047.717
20038.154
20028.59
20019.026
20009.463

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, rural. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-people-practicing-open-defecation-rural (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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