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Countries Ranked by Mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene (per 100,000 population)

Showing every country with available data for 2019 • World Bank: SH.STA.WASH.P5

The indicator page shows only the leaders and the laggards — useful for headlines, but it leaves out the middle of the distribution, which is where most countries actually sit. This page lists every country with reported mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene (per 100,000 population) data for 2019, ranked from highest to lowest, so you can find any country's exact position rather than guessing whether it falls inside the top or bottom ten.

Of the 183 countries reporting, the median value is 6.10, meaning half the world sits above this line and half below. Use the search box below to jump straight to a country, or scroll the full table. Each country name links through to its detailed country × indicator page with the 20-year trend.

Top Country in Each Region

East Asia & Pacific

Kiribati

37.40

Europe & Central Asia

Tajikistan

9.00

Latin America & Caribbean

Haiti

25.90

Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan

Pakistan

38.80

North America

Canada

2.30

South Asia

India

36.40

Sub-Saharan Africa

Lesotho

108.10

Rank Country Mortality rate attributed to unsafe water, unsafe sanitation and lack of hygiene (per 100,000 population)
1 Lesotho 108.10
2 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 99.20
3 Chad 99.20
4 Central African Republic 97.00
5 Nigeria 71.70
6 Niger 70.30
7 Sierra Leone 69.50
8 South Sudan 68.10
9 Eritrea 66.50
10 Mali 66.10
11 Burkina Faso 60.90
12 Benin 60.20
13 Guinea 57.80
14 Burundi 53.30
15 Congo, Dem. Rep. 52.30
16 Guinea-Bissau 49.40
17 Angola 48.90
18 Cameroon 47.30
19 Cote d'Ivoire 47.00
20 Eswatini 46.50
21 Mozambique 45.60
22 Comoros 43.80
23 Togo 42.40
24 Ethiopia 40.70
25 Madagascar 40.10
26 Pakistan 38.80
27 Mauritania 37.80
28 Djibouti 37.60
29 Kiribati 37.40
30 India 36.40
31 Zimbabwe 36.20
32 Zambia 35.80
33 Liberia 34.60
34 Solomon Islands 32.70
35 Senegal 31.70
36 Malawi 30.80
37 Tanzania 30.20
38 Equatorial Guinea 29.70
39 Gambia, The 29.50
40 Kenya 29.00
41 Namibia 28.80
42 Uganda 28.10
43 South Africa 27.60
44 Botswana 26.80
45 Congo, Rep. 26.40
46 Haiti 25.90
47 Ghana 25.20
48 Rwanda 25.00
49 Vanuatu 25.00
50 Papua New Guinea 24.90
51 Lao PDR 20.50
52 Timor-Leste 20.40
53 Bangladesh 18.20
54 Nepal 17.80
55 Gabon 17.50
56 Cambodia 17.10
57 Philippines 16.90
58 Sao Tome and Principe 16.70
59 Afghanistan 16.60
60 Indonesia 15.80
61 Sudan 15.80
62 Bhutan 15.70
63 Yemen, Rep. 15.60
64 Guatemala 15.30
65 Malaysia 14.40
66 Bolivia 14.30
67 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. 14.00
68 Myanmar 12.90
69 Cabo Verde 12.10
70 Thailand 11.80
71 Argentina 11.40
72 Fiji 10.80
73 Cuba 9.70
74 Syrian Arab Republic 9.10
75 Tajikistan 9.00
76 Guyana 8.60
77 Singapore 8.50
78 Japan 8.40
79 Seychelles 8.40
80 Samoa 8.20
81 Barbados 7.70
82 Peru 7.60
83 Greece 7.60
84 Romania 7.20
85 Suriname 7.10
86 Honduras 7.10
87 Tonga 7.10
88 Viet Nam 6.90
89 Portugal 6.80
90 Grenada 6.70
91 Brazil 6.60
92 El Salvador 6.10
93 United Kingdom 6.10
94 St. Lucia 5.80
95 Dominican Republic 5.80
96 Armenia 5.80
97 Turkmenistan 5.70
98 Mauritius 5.50
99 Poland 5.40
100 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 5.30
101 Belgium 5.30
102 Korea, Rep. 5.20
103 Venezuela, RB 5.20
104 Sri Lanka 4.80
105 Egypt, Arab Rep. 4.80
106 Ecuador 4.70
107 Morocco 4.60
108 Paraguay 4.60
109 Malta 4.60
110 Iraq 4.40
111 Uruguay 4.40
112 Belize 4.30
113 Panama 4.20
114 Czechia 4.10
115 Korea, Dem. People's Rep. 4.10
116 Denmark 4.10
117 Algeria 4.10
118 Serbia 3.90
119 Azerbaijan 3.60
120 Slovak Republic 3.60
121 Moldova 3.60
122 Norway 3.60
123 Mexico 3.50
124 Nicaragua 3.50
125 Netherlands 3.40
126 France 3.40
127 Colombia 3.40
128 Georgia 3.30
129 Albania 3.20
130 Germany 3.20
131 Kazakhstan 3.20
132 Mongolia 3.20
133 Russian Federation 3.20
134 Spain 3.20
135 Tunisia 3.10
136 Sweden 3.00
137 Italy 3.00
138 Iran, Islamic Rep. 2.90
139 Costa Rica 2.90
140 Bulgaria 2.90
141 Uzbekistan 2.90
142 Croatia 2.70
143 Ireland 2.70
144 Estonia 2.60
145 Lithuania 2.60
146 Latvia 2.60
147 Bahamas, The 2.60
148 Turkiye 2.50
149 Antigua and Barbuda 2.50
150 Switzerland 2.50
151 Iceland 2.40
152 Lebanon 2.40
153 Ukraine 2.30
154 Jamaica 2.30
155 Canada 2.30
156 Chile 2.30
157 Maldives 2.30
158 United States 2.30
159 Kyrgyz Republic 2.30
160 China 2.20
161 Libya 2.20
162 New Zealand 2.10
163 Hungary 2.00
164 Israel 2.00
165 Austria 2.00
166 Luxembourg 1.90
167 Saudi Arabia 1.90
168 Slovenia 1.90
169 Australia 1.90
170 Jordan 1.90
171 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1.90
172 Montenegro 1.80
173 Brunei Darussalam 1.70
174 Oman 1.60
175 Trinidad and Tobago 1.60
176 Cyprus 1.60
177 Belarus 1.60
178 North Macedonia 1.00
179 Kuwait 0.80
180 Finland 0.80
181 United Arab Emirates 0.80
182 Bahrain 0.80
183 Qatar 0.40

Source: World Bank Open Data (SH.STA.WASH.P5), CC BY 4.0. Rankings include only countries with reported values for 2019; countries with suppressed or unavailable data are omitted.

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