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Türkiye: People practicing open defecation, rural

0.61percent · 2024-29.3% 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 Türkiye from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240.615
20230.615
20220.615
20210.615
20200.615
20190.657
20180.7
20170.742
20160.785
20150.827
20140.869
20130.912
20120.954
20110.996
20101.039
20091.081
20081.124
20071.166
20061.208
20051.251
20041.293
20031.335
20021.378
20011.42
20001.42

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

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