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Mexico: People practicing open defecation

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 Mexico from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240
20230
20220.048
20210.381
20200.72
20191.064
20181.413
20171.768
20162.129
20152.495
20142.866
20133.243
20123.626
20114.014
20104.408
20094.808
20085.213
20075.625
20066.043
20056.467
20046.897
20037.334
20027.777
20018.227
20008.683

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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