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Mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene (per 100,000 population)
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Mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene (per 100,000 population)
Mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene is deaths attributable to unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene focusing on inadequate WASH services per 100,000 population. Death rates are calculated by dividing the number of deaths by the total population. In this estimate, only the impact of diarrhoeal diseases, intestinal nematode infections, and protein-energy malnutrition are taken into account.
World Bank code: SH.STA.WASH.P5
• Data available for 183 countries • Latest year: 2019
In ,
Lesotho
led Mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene (per 100,000 population) at 108.10.
The world median across 183 reporting countries was
6.10.
What this measures:
Mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene is deaths attributable to unsafe water, sanitation and hygiene focusing on inadequate WASH services per 100,000 population. Death rates are calculated by dividing the number of deaths by the total population. In this estimate, only the impact of diarrhoeal diseases, intestinal nematode infections, and protein-energy malnutrition are taken into account.
How "Health & Population" indicators are measured
Health and population indicators come from national vital-registration systems, demographic and health surveys, and modeling by the UN Population Division and WHO. Mortality and morbidity estimates are often modeled rather than directly observed in lower-capacity statistical systems, which means some figures are interpolations between survey years. Life expectancy is a "period" measure based on current age-specific mortality, not a forecast of how long someone born today will actually live.
Distribution — 2019
Reporting
183 countries
Median
6.10
Mean
16.96
25th percentile
2.90
75th percentile
25.20
Range
0.40 – 108.10
World at a Glance — 2019
Every reporting country, grouped by region, shaded by value (quintile).
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Highest Values — 2019
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