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Guyana: People practicing open defecation

0.01percent · 2024-98.0% 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 Guyana from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240.013
20230.013
20220.013
20210.304
20200.357
20190.41
20180.463
20170.516
20160.569
20150.622
20140.675
20130.728
20120.781
20110.834
20100.885
20090.936
20080.986
20071.037
20061.087
20051.138
20041.188
20031.237
20021.287
20011.338
20001.389

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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