Safely managed drinking water
% of population
- Published value. Native scale: 0 to 100 percent.
- Transform: value (no transform).
- Goalposts (fixed for all years; 2.5th and 97.5th percentiles of all observed country-years): worst = 7.71 scores 0, best = 100 scores 100.
- Direction: higher is better, no flip.
- Clip and scale: anything below the worst goalpost scores 0 and anything above the best scores 100; multiply by 100.
Where the numbers come from
- WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene produces the series — Estimated by the joint programme from household surveys, censuses and administrative data on water quality and availability.
Source statement as published by the data provider (verbatim)
WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene, World Health Organization (WHO), uri: washdata.org, note: Aggregate data by groups are computed based on the groupings for the World Bank fiscal year in which the data was released by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene., publisher: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (washdata.org), date accessed: 2025-09-30, date published: 2025-08-25; UN Children's Fund (UNICEF), uri: washdata.org, note: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene
The percentage of people using drinking water from an improved source that is accessible on premises, available when needed and free from fecal and priority chemical contamination. Improved water sources include piped water, boreholes or tubewells, protected dug wells, protected springs, and packaged or delivered water.
Every country row below has a “verify” link to this series filtered to that country, so each value can be checked against the source.
History
Countries ranked on this indicator
150 countries have a usable value for 2024 (2 carried forward from an earlier year); 67 have none within 3 years.
No official value for 2024: 67 countries
Aruba, Angola, Argentina, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Bahamas, The, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Barbados, Brunei Darussalam, Channel Islands, China, Cameroon, Comoros, Cabo Verde, Cuba, Curacao, Cayman Islands, Djibouti, Dominica, Eritrea, Faroe Islands, Micronesia, Fed. Sts., Gabon, Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Grenada, Greenland, Haiti, Jamaica, Kenya, St. Kitts and Nevis, Liberia, Libya, St. Lucia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Namibia, Niger, Nicaragua, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Solomon Islands, El Salvador, Somalia, Fed. Rep., South Sudan, Sint Maarten (Dutch part), Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkiye, Uruguay, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Venezuela, RB, British Virgin Islands, Kosovo, Yemen, Rep., Zambia