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Sri Lanka: 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 Sri Lanka from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240
20230
20220
20210
20200.091
20190.326
20180.561
20170.798
20161.065
20151.333
20141.6
20131.867
20122.135
20112.401
20102.668
20092.935
20083.201
20073.468
20063.735
20054.001
20044.268
20034.534
20024.801
20015.067
20005.334

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. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-people-practicing-open-defecation (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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