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Guyana: 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 Guyana from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240
20230
20220
20210.389
20200.451
20190.514
20180.577
20170.639
20160.702
20150.765
20140.828
20130.89
20120.953
20111.016
20101.078
20091.141
20081.204
20071.267
20061.329
20051.392
20041.455
20031.517
20021.58
20011.643
20001.705

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 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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