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Zimbabwe: 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 Zimbabwe from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240
20230
20220.047
20210.183
20200.319
20190.454
20180.59
20170.726
20160.862
20150.997
20141.133
20131.269
20121.405
20111.54
20101.676
20091.812
20081.948
20072.083
20062.219
20052.355
20042.491
20032.626
20022.762
20012.898
20002.898

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 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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