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Uruguay: 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 Uruguay from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240
20230
20220.055
20210.12
20200.184
20190.254
20180.331
20170.409
20160.487
20150.566
20140.645
20130.725
20120.805
20110.885
20100.968
20091.052
20081.136
20071.222
20061.309
20051.397
20041.486
20031.494
20021.501
20011.51
20001.518

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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