Safe sanitation (share of people) over time (2000–2024)

Follow safe sanitation (share of people) for the world’s countries, year by year, from 2000 to 2024.

In 2000, 3 countries tied for first (100.0%).
In 2024, 5 countries tied for first (100.0%).
Japan’s safe sanitation (share of people) went from 96.5% in 2000 to 99.2% in 2024 (up 2.7 points).
Japan ranked #10 of 131 countries in 2000 and #9 of 134 in 2024. The number of countries differs between the years, so the ranks are not directly comparable.

Japan and countries at the top, middle and bottom

Key years for Japan and countries at the top, middle and bottom of the 2024 ranking
Country	2000	2010	2020	2024
Andorra	21.3%	70.5%	100.0%	100.0%
Japan	96.5%	97.9%	99.0%	99.2%
Estonia	92.0%	90.8%	90.4%	90.6%
Eswatini	45.0%	50.6%	57.9%	60.8%
Senegal	14.6%	18.7%	26.6%	30.1%
Ethiopia	2.3%	4.5%	7.0%	8.1%
Countries with data	131	137	136	134

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2024


Rank	Country	Safe sanitation (share of people)

Biggest changes, 2000–2024

Compared among the countries that have data in both 2000 and 2024. Countries with a very small starting value are left out, because their ratios look exaggerated.

Biggest increases
Country	2000	2024	Change	Rank
Malta	2.0%	100.0%	up 98 points	#131 → #1
Andorra	21.3%	100.0%	up 78.7 points	#92 → #1
China	13.4%	68.9%	up 55.5 points	#105 → #61
India	9.0%	62.8%	up 53.8 points	#116 → #64
Laos	21.2%	71.4%	up 50.2 points	#93 → #58

Biggest decreases
Country	2000	2024	Change	Rank
Gambia	43.2%	28.1%	down 15.2 points	#65 → #103
Guyana	56.6%	43.4%	down 13.2 points	#49 → #88
Nauru	45.7%	33.2%	down 12.5 points	#61 → #98
Belarus	84.4%	74.4%	down 10 points	#29 → #55
El Salvador	45.7%	36.0%	down 9.7 points	#60 → #94

The number of countries differs between the years, so the ranks are not directly comparable.

All countries in key years

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Key years for Japan and the leading countries in 2024
Country	2000	2010	2020	2024
Andorra	21.3%	70.5%	100.0%	100.0%
Kuwait	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
Monaco	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
Malta	2.0%	53.3%	100.0%	100.0%
Singapore	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
Qatar	87.5%	89.3%	98.3%	99.9%
Switzerland	97.8%	97.9%	99.6%	99.7%
South Korea	86.9%	92.9%	98.9%	99.3%
Japan	96.5%	97.9%	99.0%	99.2%
Denmark	94.8%	95.7%	98.6%	98.9%
Austria	100.0%	100.0%	99.3%	98.5%
United Arab Emirates	98.4%	98.4%	98.4%	98.4%
United Kingdom	97.3%	97.6%	97.8%	97.8%
Poland	86.1%	93.0%	97.8%	97.8%
Netherlands	97.4%	97.5%	97.5%	97.5%
Israel	80.4%	87.3%	94.3%	97.2%
United States	96.7%	96.9%	97.0%	97.0%
Germany	96.1%	96.4%	96.7%	96.8%
Lithuania	82.0%	87.1%	94.8%	96.4%
Luxembourg	92.2%	92.5%	95.1%	96.3%
Liechtenstein	96.2%	96.2%	96.3%	96.3%
Australia	93.7%	94.6%	95.4%	95.8%
Sweden	95.1%	95.2%	95.3%	95.4%
Chile	69.7%	82.0%	94.5%	95.1%
Belgium	71.2%	79.1%	92.8%	94.9%
Portugal	53.7%	69.6%	91.9%	93.9%
Bahrain	86.0%	89.1%	92.1%	93.4%
Kyrgyzstan	86.0%	89.1%	92.4%	93.0%
Greece	77.9%	84.1%	90.4%	92.9%
Latvia	79.8%	83.5%	91.3%	92.5%
Ukraine	87.6%	90.4%	92.1%	92.4%
Hungary	53.3%	71.0%	89.2%	91.7%
Czechia	88.6%	89.6%	90.9%	91.4%
Estonia	92.0%	90.8%	90.4%	90.6%
San Marino	90.2%	90.2%	90.2%	90.2%
Finland	86.6%	88.0%	89.5%	90.1%
France	88.8%	88.7%	89.6%	90.0%
Romania	–	59.4%	83.1%	89.8%
New Zealand	80.4%	86.3%	88.6%	88.8%
Spain	92.7%	91.4%	89.1%	88.3%
Malaysia	76.4%	78.7%	84.1%	85.8%
Slovenia	41.6%	63.5%	83.7%	84.5%
Saudi Arabia	–	–	84.2%	83.9%
Slovakia	84.2%	83.2%	83.1%	83.4%
Canada	75.2%	77.5%	80.6%	81.3%
Ireland	57.0%	69.0%	80.4%	81.3%
Jordan	70.2%	75.2%	79.2%	80.1%
Tunisia	49.2%	61.8%	76.4%	79.8%
Türkiye	44.2%	55.4%	72.3%	78.9%
Italy	79.3%	78.9%	78.3%	78.2%
Norway	76.7%	77.2%	77.7%	77.9%
Cyprus	76.2%	76.3%	76.9%	77.0%
Bulgaria	54.9%	60.6%	71.6%	75.7%
Uzbekistan	74.2%	73.9%	74.5%	74.6%
Belarus	84.4%	79.4%	74.5%	74.4%
South Africa	47.4%	53.3%	67.4%	73.8%
Jamaica	50.4%	59.1%	69.4%	73.6%
Laos	21.2%	43.8%	64.5%	71.4%
Mongolia	41.1%	52.6%	64.8%	69.9%
Albania	22.9%	29.6%	58.0%	69.3%
China	13.4%	34.0%	64.6%	68.9%
Azerbaijan	37.9%	50.3%	63.3%	68.0%
Georgia	27.0%	22.8%	51.7%	63.0%
India	9.0%	30.8%	54.2%	62.8%
Mexico	17.7%	34.4%	57.6%	62.7%
Algeria	58.9%	62.0%	62.4%	62.5%
Philippines	47.1%	52.7%	59.9%	62.2%
Eswatini	45.0%	50.6%	57.9%	60.8%
Myanmar	58.4%	61.0%	60.7%	60.5%
Paraguay	47.3%	52.7%	57.3%	58.5%
Russia	–	55.6%	56.9%	58.2%
Egypt	26.8%	29.8%	44.8%	57.3%
Peru	12.9%	29.0%	48.1%	56.5%
Brazil	33.7%	39.1%	51.5%	55.0%
Nepal	7.3%	24.7%	44.6%	53.4%
Cambodia	–	22.9%	43.5%	51.6%
Iraq	26.9%	36.0%	49.9%	50.9%
Montenegro	–	34.9%	46.5%	50.9%
Bhutan	38.2%	45.5%	48.0%	49.5%
Comoros	24.2%	36.0%	45.9%	49.4%
Ecuador	44.3%	46.2%	49.0%	49.3%
Fiji	42.9%	46.5%	49.2%	48.5%
Malawi	7.8%	20.9%	42.1%	46.2%
Cuba	38.3%	39.2%	43.2%	45.9%
Vietnam	31.1%	37.6%	42.8%	45.4%
Samoa	41.8%	42.4%	43.5%	44.1%
Lesotho	12.9%	27.3%	39.7%	43.8%
Guyana	56.6%	50.9%	44.8%	43.4%
Yemen	34.9%	36.2%	40.4%	43.1%
Dominican Republic	52.0%	48.5%	44.5%	43.0%
Tuvalu	41.4%	44.2%	40.3%	39.7%
Trinidad & Tobago	–	36.9%	37.6%	38.0%
Bangladesh	11.5%	19.9%	31.9%	37.3%
El Salvador	45.7%	42.1%	37.7%	36.0%
Kenya	20.2%	26.7%	33.3%	35.8%
São Tomé & Príncipe	13.2%	23.4%	33.6%	34.7%
Mozambique	9.0%	18.2%	29.1%	33.9%
Nauru	45.7%	42.7%	36.1%	33.2%
Nigeria	20.5%	24.4%	30.1%	32.2%
Tonga	38.4%	40.7%	33.0%	31.2%
Senegal	14.6%	18.7%	26.6%	30.1%
Tanzania	2.9%	15.2%	24.6%	28.5%
Gambia	43.2%	35.2%	29.3%	28.1%
Côte d’Ivoire	13.5%	19.1%	24.9%	27.1%
Thailand	19.4%	21.9%	25.3%	26.7%
Costa Rica	24.0%	22.6%	25.0%	26.3%
Venezuela	25.1%	24.2%	25.5%	26.0%
Lebanon	17.9%	21.8%	26.0%	25.7%
Suriname	29.5%	28.5%	25.2%	25.1%
Afghanistan	10.1%	16.4%	22.4%	24.8%
Burkina Faso	5.9%	13.1%	21.4%	24.7%
Kiribati	14.2%	20.5%	24.1%	24.6%
Serbia	29.6%	28.2%	25.5%	24.1%
Zimbabwe	30.9%	29.1%	23.9%	23.6%
Guinea-Bissau	–	10.7%	21.3%	22.6%
Libya	27.6%	24.2%	22.0%	21.7%
Uganda	12.7%	16.0%	19.2%	20.4%
Mali	7.0%	13.1%	18.2%	20.0%
Ghana	3.7%	9.6%	16.2%	18.8%
Colombia	15.8%	17.0%	18.2%	18.7%
Sierra Leone	5.0%	8.3%	14.0%	16.8%
Papua New Guinea	10.7%	12.7%	15.5%	16.7%
Somalia	7.2%	10.6%	14.7%	16.4%
Benin	6.2%	10.1%	14.4%	16.4%
Central African Republic	19.7%	17.2%	13.6%	13.5%
Democratic Republic of the Congo	22.0%	17.5%	13.1%	13.1%
Togo	4.3%	7.3%	12.0%	13.0%
Madagascar	3.2%	7.2%	11.5%	12.8%
North Macedonia	12.9%	12.7%	12.2%	12.1%
Chad	8.4%	9.2%	10.6%	11.1%
Armenia	15.0%	12.8%	10.7%	10.7%
Niger	3.6%	6.1%	8.6%	9.1%
Morocco	10.9%	10.5%	9.2%	8.4%
Ethiopia	2.3%	4.5%	7.0%	8.1%
Argentina	48.1%	49.7%	–	–
Bosnia & Herzegovina	26.1%	30.6%	–	–
Djibouti	24.3%	30.4%	39.5%	–
Croatia	78.3%	77.2%	74.9%	–
Countries with data	131	137	136	134

Notes on reading this history

Yearly values come from the same World Bank indicator. The number of countries with data differs by year, so each year’s ranks are given only among the countries that have data that year. The ranking page uses each country’s latest year, so it may not match a single year’s ranking here.

Older years have fewer countries with data. See the “Countries with data” row in the table.

Source: People using safely managed sanitation services (% of population), indicator SH.STA.SMSS.ZS. Processed by this site. data.worldbank.org

World Bank data last updated: 2026-10-08