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Iraq: People practicing open defecation

0.00percent · 2024-99.3% 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 Iraq from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240.005
20230.004
20220.004
20210.004
20200.004
20190.01
20180.015
20170.02
20160.054
20150.333
20140.615
20130.9
20121.187
20111.478
20101.772
20092.066
20082.357
20072.65
20062.943
20053.237
20043.532
20033.828
20024.125
20014.423
20004.722

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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