{"id": 1132916, "name": "Number of people in rural areas with safely managed sanitation", "unit": "people", "createdAt": "2026-01-09T17:23:52.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-01-16T11:47:51.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "2000-2024", "datasetId": 7319, "shortUnit": "", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "san_sm_pop__residence_rural", "catalogPath": "grapher/wash/2025-12-08/household/household#san_sm_pop__residence_rural", "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 2000}, {"id": 2001}, {"id": 2002}, {"id": 2003}, {"id": 2004}, {"id": 2005}, {"id": 2006}, {"id": 2007}, {"id": 2008}, {"id": 2009}, {"id": 2010}, {"id": 2011}, {"id": 2012}, {"id": 2013}, {"id": 2014}, {"id": 2015}, {"id": 2016}, {"id": 2017}, {"id": 2018}, {"id": 2019}, {"id": 2020}, {"id": 2021}, {"id": 2022}, {"id": 2023}, {"id": 2024}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 15, "name": "Afghanistan", "code": "AFG"}, {"id": 369115, "name": "Africa (WHO)", "code": "WHO_AFR"}, {"id": 17, "name": "Algeria", "code": "DZA"}, {"id": 18, 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"code": "PHL"}, {"id": 95, "name": "Portugal", "code": "PRT"}, {"id": 91, "name": "Rwanda", "code": "RWA"}, {"id": 239, "name": "Samoa", "code": "WSM"}, {"id": 232, "name": "Sao Tome and Principe", "code": "STP"}, {"id": 89, "name": "Senegal", "code": "SEN"}, {"id": 88, "name": "Serbia", "code": "SRB"}, {"id": 87, "name": "Sierra Leone", "code": "SLE"}, {"id": 85, "name": "Slovakia", "code": "SVK"}, {"id": 82, "name": "Somalia", "code": "SOM"}, {"id": 369217, "name": "South-East Asia (WHO)", "code": "WHO_SEAR"}, {"id": 303605, "name": "Sub-Saharan Africa (UN SDG)", "code": "UNSDG_SSA"}, {"id": 234, "name": "Suriname", "code": "SUR"}, {"id": 10, "name": "Sweden", "code": "SWE"}, {"id": 7, "name": "Switzerland", "code": "CHE"}, {"id": 76, "name": "Tajikistan", "code": "TJK"}, {"id": 64, "name": "Tanzania", "code": "TZA"}, {"id": 75, "name": "Thailand", "code": "THA"}, {"id": 74, "name": "Togo", "code": "TGO"}, {"id": 235, "name": "Tonga", "code": "TON"}, {"id": 73, "name": "Trinidad and Tobago", "code": "TTO"}, {"id": 71, "name": "Tunisia", "code": "TUN"}, {"id": 70, "name": "Turkey", "code": "TUR"}, {"id": 236, "name": "Turks and Caicos Islands", "code": "TCA"}, {"id": 237, "name": "Tuvalu", "code": "TUV"}, {"id": 68, "name": "Uganda", "code": "UGA"}, {"id": 72, "name": "United Arab Emirates", "code": "ARE"}, {"id": 1, "name": "United Kingdom", "code": "GBR"}, {"id": 371956, "name": "Upper middle-income countries", "code": null}, {"id": 62, "name": "Uzbekistan", "code": "UZB"}, {"id": 84, "name": "Vietnam", "code": "VNM"}, {"id": 369114, "name": "Western Pacific (WHO)", "code": "WHO_WPAC"}, {"id": 355, "name": "World", "code": "OWID_WRL"}, {"id": 61, "name": "Yemen", "code": "YEM"}, {"id": 60, "name": "Zambia", "code": "ZMB"}, {"id": 80, "name": "Zimbabwe", "code": "ZWE"}]}}, "descriptionShort": "Safely managed sanitation facilities are [improved sanitation facilities](#dod:improved-sanitation) that are not shared with other households and where waste is safely disposed in-situ or transported and treated off-site.", "descriptionFromProducer": "Use of safely managed sanitation services", "type": "float", "dataChecksum": "7312781581095237732", "metadataChecksum": "3670213710158784627", "datasetName": "WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP)", "updatePeriodDays": 730, "datasetVersion": "2025-12-08", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "people", "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "schemaVersion": 2, "presentation": {"attribution": "WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (2025)", "topicTagsLinks": ["Clean Water & Sanitation", "Clean Water", "Sanitation"]}, "descriptionKey": ["Having access to safe and comfortable sanitation facilities is essential to a healthy and dignified life. Improved sanitation facilities help prevent the spread of diseases such as cholera, dysentery, and typhoid by providing safe separation from human waste.\n", "Safely managed sanitation services are defined as improved sanitation facilities that are not shared with other households and where excreta are safely disposed in situ or transported and treated off-site.\n", "This is the highest level of sanitation service and indicates reliable access to safe sanitation facilities.", "This data is provided by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP). They compile data from nationally representative household surveys and censuses, administrative data and service provider data. To learn more, see the [JMP Methodology](https://washdata.org/topics/methods/data-sources).\n", "This data reflects actual service use, which is directly linked to health outcomes and can be consistently measured across countries using household surveys. It is possible to theoretically have access to some kind of water and sanitation infrastructure, but not use them for daily needs. Therefore we refer to \"use\" or \"using\" rather than \"access\" to better reflect the underlying data.\n"], "origins": [{"id": 10760, "titleSnapshot": "WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP) - Household Data", "title": "WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP)", "descriptionSnapshot": "The WHO/UNICEF JMP WASH collects three data on household, school and healthcare facility level. Household data includes the following indicators:\n\nDrinking water\n\nDrinking water services refers to the accessibility, availability and quality of the main source used by households for drinking, cooking, personal hygiene and other domestic uses\n\nSanitation\n\nSanitation services refer to the management of excreta from the facilities used by individuals, through emptying and transport of excreta for treatment and eventual discharge or reuse.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\n\nHygiene\n\nHygiene refers to the conditions and practices that help maintain health and prevent spread of disease including handwashing, food hygiene, and menstrual hygiene management (see Menstrual Health).\n\n\nMenstrual Health\n\nMenstrual health refers to \u2018a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity, in relation to the menstrual cycle\u2019.", "description": "The WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP) has reported country, regional and global estimates of progress on drinking water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) since 1990. The JMP maintains an extensive global database and has become the leading source of comparable estimates of progress at national, regional and global levels.", "producer": "World Health Organization/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene", "citationFull": "World Health Organization/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (2025). Estimates for drinking water, sanitation and hygiene services by country (2000-2024), https://washdata.org/data", "attributionShort": "WHO/UNICEF JMP", "versionProducer": "2000-2024 report", "urlMain": "https://washdata.org/data/downloads#WLD", "dateAccessed": "2025-12-08", "datePublished": "2025-08-01", "license": {"url": "https://data.unicef.org/resources/jmp-report-2025/", "name": "CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO"}}]}