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Timor-Leste: People practicing open defecation, urban

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 Timor-Leste from 2002 to 2024.

20022024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240
20230
20220
20210
20200.724
20191.709
20182.694
20173.68
20164.665
20155.651
20146.636
20137.622
20128.607
20119.593
201010.578
200911.564
200812.549
200713.534
200614.52
200515.505
200416.491
200317.476
200218.462

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, urban. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-people-practicing-open-defecation-urban (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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