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Last update:
November 2006

Proportion of the population with access to improved sanitation (percentage)

Country	Improved sanitation coverage % 1990			Improved sanitation coverage % 2004			Improved sanitation coverage % 2015	Progress towards the MDG sanitation target
Country	Total	Urban	Rural	Total	Urban	Rural	MDG Target	Progress towards the MDG sanitation target
Afghanistan	3	7	2	34	49	29	52	on track
Albania	-	99	-	91	99	84	94	-
Algeria	88	99	77	92	99	82	94	on track
Andorra	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	on track
Angola	29	61	18	31	56	16	65	not on track
Antigua and Barbuda	-	98	-	95	98	94	98	on track
Argentina	81	86	45	91	92	83	91	on track
Armenia	-	96	-	83	96	61	91	-
Australia	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	on track
Austria	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	on track
Azerbaijan	-	-	-	54	73	36	75	-
Bahamas	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	on track
Bahrain	-	100	-	-	100	-	-	-
Bangladesh	20	55	12	39	51	35	60	insufficient progress
Barbados	100	99	100	100	99	100	100	on track
Belarus	-	-	-	84	93	61	91	-
Belgium	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Belize	-	-	-	47	71	25	71	-
Benin	12	32	2	33	59	11	56	not on track
Bhutan	-	-	-	70	65	70	83	-
Bolivia	33	49	14	46	60	22	67	not on track
Bosnia and Herzegovina	-	99	-	95	99	92	97	on track
Botswana	38	61	21	42	57	25	69	not on track
Brazil	71	82	37	75	83	37	86	insufficient progress
Brunei Darussalam	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Bulgaria	99	100	96	99	100	96	100	on track
Burkina Faso	7	32	3	13	42	6	54	not on track
Burundi	44	42	44	36	47	35	72	not on track
Cambodia	-	-	-	17	53	8	52	-
Cameroon	48	59	40	51	58	43	74	not on track
Canada	100	100	99	100	100	99	100	on track
Cape Verde	-	-	-	43	61	19	66	-
Central African Republic	23	34	17	27	47	12	62	not on track
Chad	7	28	2	9	24	4	54	not on track
Chile	84	91	52	91	95	62	92	on track
China	23	64	7	44	69	28	62	on track
Colombia	82	95	52	86	96	54	91	on track
Comoros	32	62	20	33	41	29	66	not on track
Congo	-	-	-	27	28	25	59	-
Congo, Democratic Republic of the	16	53	1	30	42	25	58	not on track
Cook Islands	94	100	91	100	100	100	97	on track
Costa Rica	-	-	97	92	89	97	96	-
Côte d'Ivoire	21	37	10	37	46	29	61	not on track
Croatia	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	on track
Cuba	98	99	95	98	99	95	99	on track
Cyprus	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	on track
Czech Republic	99	99	97	98	99	97	100	on track
Denmark	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Djibouti	79	88	50	82	88	50	90	on track
Dominica	-	-	-	84	86	75	91	-
Dominican Republic	52	60	43	78	81	73	76	on track
Ecuador	63	77	45	89	94	82	82	on track
Egypt	54	70	42	70	86	58	77	on track
El Salvador	51	70	33	62	77	39	76	on track
Equatorial Guinea	-	-	-	53	60	46	73	-
Eritrea	7	44	0	9	32	3	54	not on track
Estonia	97	97	96	97	97	96	99	on track
Ethiopia	3	13	2	13	44	7	52	not on track
Fiji	68	87	55	72	87	55	84	-
Finland	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	on track
France	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Gabon	-	-	-	36	37	30	64	-
Gambia	-	-	-	53	72	46	74	-
Georgia	97	99	94	94	96	91	99	not on track
Germany	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	on track
Ghana	15	23	10	18	27	11	58	not on track
Greece	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Grenada	97	96	97	96	96	97	99	on track
Guatemala	58	73	47	86	90	82	79	on track
Guinea	14	27	10	18	31	11	57	not on track
Guinea-Bissau	-	-	-	35	57	23	62	-
Guyana	-	-	-	70	86	60	83	-
Haiti	24	25	23	30	57	14	62	not on track
Holy See	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Honduras	50	77	31	69	87	54	75	on track
Hungary	-	100	-	95	100	85	97	on track
Iceland	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	on track
India	14	45	3	33	59	22	57	not on track
Indonesia	46	65	37	55	73	40	73	insufficient progress
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	83	86	78	-	-	-	92	-
Iraq	81	95	48	79	95	48	91	not on track
Ireland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Israel	-	100	-	-	100	-	-	-
Italy	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Jamaica	75	86	64	80	91	69	88	on track
Japan	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	on track
Jordan	93	97	82	93	94	87	97	not on track
Kazakhstan	72	87	52	72	87	52	86	-
Kenya	40	48	37	43	46	41	70	not on track
Kiribati	25	33	21	40	59	22	63	not on track
Korea, Democratic People's Republic. of	-	-	-	59	58	60	77	-
Korea, Republic of	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Kuwait	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Kyrgyzstan	60	75	51	59	75	51	80	-
Lao People's Dem. Republic	-	-	-	30	67	20	60	-
Latvia	-	-	-	78	82	71	-	-
Lebanon	-	100	-	98	100	87	99	on track
Lesotho	37	61	32	37	61	32	69	-
Liberia	39	59	24	27	49	7	70	not on track
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	97	97	96	97	97	96	99	on track
Liechtenstein	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Lithuania	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Luxembourg	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Madagascar	14	27	10	34	48	26	57	not on track
Malawi	47	64	45	61	62	61	74	on track
Malaysia	-	95	-	94	95	93	-	-
Maldives	-	100	-	59	100	42	76	-
Mali	36	50	32	46	59	39	68	not on track
Malta	-	100	-	-	100	-	-	-
Marshall Islands	74	88	51	82	93	58	87	on track
Mauritania	31	42	22	34	49	8	66	not on track
Mauritius	-	95	-	94	95	94	-	-
Mexico	58	75	13	79	91	41	79	on track
Micronesia (Federated States of)	29	54	20	28	61	14	65	not on track
Moldova, Republic of	-	-	-	68	86	52	82	-
Monaco	100	100	-	100	100	-	100	on track
Mongolia	-	-	-	59	75	37	77	-
Montenegro*	87	97	77	87	97	77	94	-
Morocco	56	87	27	73	88	52	78	on track
Mozambique	20	49	12	32	53	19	60	not on track
Myanmar	24	48	16	77	88	72	62	on track
Namibia	24	70	8	25	50	13	62	not on track
Nauru	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Nepal	11	48	7	35	62	30	56	on track
Netherlands	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	on track
New Zealand	-	-	88	-	-	-	-	-
Nicaragua	45	64	24	47	56	34	73	not on track
Niger	7	35	2	13	43	4	54	not on track
Nigeria	39	51	33	44	53	36	70	not on track
Niue	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	on track
Norway	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Occupied Palestinian Terr.	-	-	-	73	78	61	85	-
Oman	83	97	61	-	97	-	92	-
Pakistan	37	82	17	59	92	41	69	on track
Palau	67	76	54	80	96	52	84	on track
Panama	71	89	51	73	89	51	86	-
Papua New Guinea	44	67	41	44	67	41	72	-
Paraguay	58	72	45	80	94	61	79	on track
Peru	52	69	15	63	74	32	76	on track
Philippines	57	66	48	72	80	59	79	on track
Poland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Portugal	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Qatar	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	on track
Romania	-	-	-	-	89	-	-	-
Russian Federation	87	93	70	87	93	70	94	not on track
Rwanda	37	49	36	42	56	38	69	not on track
Saint Kitts and Nevis	95	96	96	95	96	96	98	on track
Saint Lucia	-	-	-	89	89	89	94	-
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	-	-	96	-	-	96	-	-
Samoa	98	100	98	100	100	100	99	on track
San Marino	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
São Tomé and Príncipe	-	-	-	25	32	20	58	-
Saudi Arabia	-	100	-	-	100	-	-	-
Senegal	33	53	19	57	79	34	67	on track
Serbia*	87	97	77	87	97	77	94	-
Seychelles	-	-	100	-	-	100	-	-
Sierra Leone	-	-	-	39	53	30	66	-
Singapore	100	100	-	100	100	-	100	on track
Slovakia	99	100	98	99	100	98	100	on track
Slovenia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Solomon Islands	-	98	-	31	98	18	61	-
Somalia	-	-	-	26	48	14	58	-
South Africa	69	85	53	65	79	46	85	not on track
Spain	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	on track
Sri Lanka	69	89	64	91	98	89	85	on track
Sudan	33	53	26	34	50	24	67	not on track
Suriname	-	99	-	94	99	76	96	-
Swaziland	-	-	-	48	59	44	71	-
Sweden	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	on track
Switzerland	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	on track
Syrian Arab Republic	73	97	50	90	99	81	87	on track
Tajikistan	-	-	-	51	70	45	73	-
Tanzania	47	52	45	47	53	43	74	not on track
Thailand	80	95	74	99	98	99	90	on track
The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Timor-Leste	-	-	-	36	66	33	64	-
Togo	37	71	24	35	71	15	69	not on track
Tonga	96	98	96	96	98	96	98	on track
Trinidad and Tobago	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	on track
Tunisia	75	95	47	85	96	65	88	on track
Turkey	85	96	70	88	96	72	93	on track
Turkmenistan	-	-	-	62	77	50	79	-
Tuvalu	78	83	74	90	93	84	89	on track
Uganda	42	54	41	43	54	41	71	not on track
Ukraine	-	98	-	96	98	93	98	on track
United Arab Emirates	97	98	95	98	98	95	99	on track
United Kingdom	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
United States of America	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	on track
Uruguay	100	100	99	100	100	99	100	on track
Uzbekistan	51	69	39	67	78	61	76	on track
Vanuatu	-	-	-	50	78	42	72	-
Venezuela	-	-	-	68	71	48	82	-
Viet Nam	36	58	30	61	92	50	68	on track
Yemen	32	82	19	43	86	28	66	not on track
Zambia	44	63	31	55	59	52	72	insufficient progress
Zimbabwe	50	69	42	53	63	47	75	not on track

UNICEF Region	Improved sanitation coverage % 1990			Improved sanitation coverage % 2004			Improved sanitation coverage % 2015	Progress towards the MDG sanitation target
UNICEF Region	Total	Urban	Rural	Total	Urban	Rural	MDG Target	Progress towards the MDG sanitation target
Sub-Saharan Africa	32	52	24	37	53	28	66	not on track
Western and Central Africa	28	47	19	36	49	26	64	not on track
Eastern and Southern Africa	35	59	28	38	58	30	68	not on track
Middle East and North Africa	68	87	48	74	90	53	84	on track
South Asia	17	51	6	37	63	27	59	insufficient progress
East Asia and Pacific	30	66	15	51	73	36	65	on track
Latin America and Caribbean	68	81	36	77	86	49	84	on track
CEE/CIS	84	94	67	84	93	70	92	not on track
Industrialized countries	100	100	100	100	100	99	100	on track
Developing countries	35	68	17	50	73	33	68	insufficient progress
Least developed countries	22	48	16	36	55	29	61	not on track
World	49	79	26	59	80	39	75	insufficient progress

* Data available for Serbia and Montenegro.

Source:
Improved sanitation coverage (%) by country: WHO/UNICEF, JMP 2006.
Improved sanitation coverage by region (%) and progress towards the MDG sanitation target: WHO/UNICEF, JMP 2006 with additional analysis by UNICEF.