Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Armenia

Handwashing facilities in Armenia in 2022 — 94.4%. Ranked 17 in the world out of 103. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 11.2 pp.

2022 94.4% +0 pp vs 2021
World rank 17of 103
Period maximum 94.4%2022
Period minimum 83.2%2000

Trend over time

2000–2022 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Armenia, 2000–202280859095200020032006200920122015201820212000: 83.2%2001: 83.8%2002: 84.4%2003: 85%2004: 85.7%2005: 86.3%2006: 86.9%2007: 87.6%2008: 88.2%2009: 88.8%2010: 89.5%2011: 90.1%2012: 90.8%2013: 91.4%2014: 92.1%2015: 92.7%2016: 93.4%2017: 94%2018: 94.4%2019: 94.4%2020: 94.4%2021: 94.4%2022: 94.4%
Change over the period: +11.2 pp Annual average: 0.51 pp

Comparison, 2022

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Armenia

Armenia 94.4%
World 75.1%
Handwashing facilities — Armenia, by year Armenia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2022 94.4 +0 pp
2021 94.4 +0 pp
2020 94.4 +0 pp
2019 94.4 +0 pp
2018 94.4 +0.4 pp
2017 94 +0.7 pp
2016 93.4 +0.7 pp
2015 92.7 +0.7 pp
2014 92.1 +0.7 pp
2013 91.4 +0.6 pp
2012 90.8 +0.6 pp
2011 90.1 +0.6 pp
2010 89.5 +0.6 pp
2009 88.8 +0.6 pp
2008 88.2 +0.6 pp
2007 87.6 +0.6 pp
2006 86.9 +0.6 pp
2005 86.3 +0.6 pp
2004 85.7 +0.6 pp
2003 85 +0.6 pp
2002 84.4 +0.6 pp
2001 83.8 +0.6 pp
2000 83.2

About the indicator

The share of the population that has an equipped place for washing hands with water and soap in the dwelling. The indicator looks a small one next to piped water and sewerage, but in its contribution to reducing diarrheal and respiratory disease it is comparable to them, and it costs incomparably less. The COVID-19 pandemic made it visible: it turned out that in the poorest countries of Africa fewer than a quarter of the population have facilities for washing hands.

Important: Not all countries are surveyed: where practically everyone has such facilities, these data are not collected. That is why the aggregate by country group is computed only where coverage is sufficient — averaging the surveyed countries alone would give a picture noticeably worse than the reality.

Source: Global Health Observatory (WHO), license CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.