Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Belize

Handwashing facilities in Belize in 2022 — 90.3%. Ranked 27 in the world out of 103. Since 2005, the indicator has risen by 8.6 pp.

2022 90.3% +0 pp vs 2021
World rank 27of 103
Period maximum 90.3%2022
Period minimum 81.7%2005

Trend over time

2005–2022 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Belize, 2005–20228082.58587.59092.520052007200920112013201520172019202120222005: 81.7%2006: 81.7%2007: 81.7%2008: 81.7%2009: 81.7%2010: 83.3%2011: 84.3%2012: 85.2%2013: 86%2014: 86.9%2015: 87.7%2016: 88.6%2017: 89.4%2018: 90.3%2019: 90.3%2020: 90.3%2021: 90.3%2022: 90.3%
Change over the period: +8.6 pp Annual average: 0.51 pp

Comparison, 2022

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

Belize 90.3%
World 75.1%
Central America computed 96%
Handwashing facilities — Belize, by year Belize All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2022 90.3 +0 pp
2021 90.3 +0 pp
2020 90.3 +0 pp
2019 90.3 +0 pp
2018 90.3 +0.9 pp
2017 89.4 +0.9 pp
2016 88.6 +0.9 pp
2015 87.7 +0.8 pp
2014 86.9 +0.8 pp
2013 86 +0.8 pp
2012 85.2 +0.8 pp
2011 84.3 +1 pp
2010 83.3 +1.6 pp
2009 81.7 +0 pp
2008 81.7 +0 pp
2007 81.7 +0 pp
2006 81.7 +0 pp
2005 81.7

Central America, 2022

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

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.