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Mauritania: Population with basic handwashing facilities at home
41percent · 2024-22.6% since 2014
Population with basic handwashing facilities at home (%). WHO Global Health Observatory indicator WSH_HYGIENE_BASIC. Annual figures for Mauritania from 2009 to 2024.
Every year
| Year | Value (percent) | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 41 | |
| 2023 | 40 | |
| 2022 | 42 | |
| 2021 | 43 | |
| 2020 | 45 | |
| 2019 | 46 | |
| 2018 | 47 | |
| 2017 | 49 | |
| 2016 | 50 | |
| 2015 | 52 | |
| 2014 | 53 | |
| 2013 | 55 | |
| 2012 | 54 | |
| 2011 | 54 | |
| 2010 | 54 | |
| 2009 | 54 |
Source
Published by World Health Organization. Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. Retrieved 2026-11-07.
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World Health Organization (2026). Population with basic handwashing facilities at home. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/who-wsh-hygiene-basic (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.
Population with basic handwashing facilities at home in other countries
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Angola
- Armenia
- Aruba
- Azerbaijan
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belize
- Benin
- Bhutan
- Bolivia, Plurinational State of
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- China
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
- Costa Rica
- Côte d'Ivoire
- Cuba
- Djibouti
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Fiji
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Georgia
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Honduras
- India
- Indonesia
- Iraq
- Jamaica
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lao People's Democratic Republic
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Maldives
- Mali
- Marshall Islands
- Mexico
- Moldova, Republic of
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Niger
- Nigeria
- North Macedonia
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palestine, State of
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Philippines
- Qatar
- Rwanda
- Saint Lucia
- Samoa
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Sierra Leone
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Syrian Arab Republic
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Viet Nam
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
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