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If that were the case, there would be lots of disease and a terrible smell.","They think a third or more of the world’s population have no toilets! That would smell a lot.","Sources: WHO & UNICEF","\nThe data comes from the WHO and UNICEF, through their Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP)[1]. The numbers are from 2022. This was also used in their 2022 report[2].\n\nThe underlying data comes mostly from household surveys and census data that is self-reported by the individual countries and collected by the JMP. The question that was asked was: “What kind of toilet facility do members of your household usually use?\"\n\nThe JMP makes separate estimates for rural and urban populations in each country and then calculates a weighted average for each country[3]. They use population data from the UN Population Division.\n\n[1]  [JMP WASH - WHO\u002FUNICEF Global population, open defecation %](https:\u002F\u002Fwashdata.org\u002Fdata\u002Fhousehold#!\u002Fdashboard\u002Fnew)  \n[2]  [JMP WASH Progress On Household Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene 2022](https:\u002F\u002Fwashdata.org\u002Freports\u002Fjmp-2023-wash-households)  \n[3]  [JMP Methodology (producing estimates, pg.13)](https:\u002F\u002Fwashdata.org\u002Fsites\u002Fdefault\u002Ffiles\u002Fdocuments\u002Freports\u002F2018-04\u002FJMP-2017-update-methodology.pdf)\n","The fact that roughly 10% of the world’s population have no toilet at home is still not good, but it is much lower than most people think! In 2000, there were twice as many.\n\nUsing the bushes, fields or other open areas to go to the toilet creates many risks to both humans and the surrounding environment.\n\n### Why are people wrong about this?\nMedia images from poorer communities in remote places often depict people who have to live in the worst of conditions, without mentioning the proportions. Our impressions of images depicting suffering in poverty are very strong and they make most of us systematically overestimate the proportion of people missing basic facilities like toilets. \n\n### Why is it a problem that people are wrong about this?\nIf we overestimate a problem like this, we end up thinking that it is too large to solve. If we recognize the progress that has been made, it can motivate us to further increase the amount of toilets in the world.\n\n### Where are the most people without toilets?\nMostly in [rural communities](https:\u002F\u002Fwashdata.org\u002Fdata\u002Fhousehold#!\u002Fdashboard\u002Fnew) throughout the world. Around 11% of the world’s rural population don’t have any form of toilet to use at home, compared to roughly 1% of the [urban population](https:\u002F\u002Fwashdata.org\u002Fdata\u002Fhousehold#!\u002Fdashboard\u002Fnew) and 56% of all people live in cities. There are also large regional differences. In Europe and North America, the rural population has access to toilets while in Central and South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, 17% of the rural population still have to defecate in the open. Check out the data [here](https:\u002F\u002Fwashdata.org\u002Fdata\u002Fhousehold#!\u002Fdashboard\u002Fnew).\n\n### Can I trust this data?\nYes, you can. The number is from UNICEF and the WHO and it is a global average based on country estimates. We have contacted six independent experts who all confirmed that this is the best global source for this kind of data. \n\n### How can I explore hundreds of toilets, from all over the world?\n[Here](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Fdollar-street\u002F?topic=toilets), on our tool Dollar Street! The images below show what some people use if they do not have a toilet: \n\n[![Toilets](\u002F\u002Fimages.ctfassets.net\u002Fghhpjogyw4x7\u002F53ICfJs1YCPBsJu2ngSIyf\u002F1941d98f79392fd5bfd017c18327fc9d\u002FScreenshot_2020-12-18_at_09.47.06.png)](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gapminder.org\u002Fdollar-street\u002Falbums\u002Fshared\u002Fb7TgKRSQ7meUvaqO1HzADz4TpDt83Tyco1fb6a4E)","Your world is full of #*&!","You thought half the world’s population have no toilets! If that were the case, there would be lots of disease and a terrible smell."]