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Malawi: People using safely managed sanitation services, rural

47.29percent · 2024+62.0% since 2014

The percentage of people using improved sanitation facilities that are not shared with other households and where excreta are safely disposed of in situ or transported and treated offsite. Improved sanitation facilities include flush/pour flush to piped sewer systems, septic tanks or pit latrines: ventilated improved pit latrines, composting toilets or pit latrines with slabs. Annual figures for Malawi from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202447.293
202347.293
202247.293
202145.053
202042.807
201940.555
201838.296
201736.032
201633.761
201531.484
201429.202
201326.913
201224.618
201122.317
201020.01
200917.697
200815.378
200713.052
200610.721
20058.384
20046.04
20036.035
20026.03
20016.025
20006.023

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 using safely managed sanitation services, rural. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-people-using-safely-managed-sanitation-services-rural (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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