Dataset
Access to handwashing facilities
owid.share-of-the-population-with-access-to-handwashing-facilities
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About
Proportion of people with access to a handwashing facility with soap and water available at home. Proportion of people with access to a handwashing facility at home, which lacks soap or water. Proportion of people with no handwashing facility at home.
Cite as: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (2025) – processed by Our World in Data. “Basic (including soap and water)” [dataset]. World Health Organization/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene, “WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP) 2000-2024 report” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 2000–2024
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- irregular
- Last modified
- 2025-12-08
- Units
- %
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-the-population-with-access-to-handwashing-facilities
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| hyg_bas__residence_total | number | Basic (including soap and water) (%) |
| hyg_lim__residence_total | number | Limited (without soap or water) (%) |
| hyg_nfac__residence_total | number | No handwashing facilities (%) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |