Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Bosnia and Herzegovina

Handwashing facilities in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2016 — 97.3%. Ranked 10 in the world out of 107. Since 2008, the indicator has risen by 0.1 pp.

2016 97.3% +0 pp vs 2015
World rank 10of 107
Period maximum 97.3%2016
Period minimum 97.2%2008

Trend over time

2008–2016 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2008–201697.297.297.297.297.397.32008200920102011201220132014201520162008: 97.2%2009: 97.2%2010: 97.2%2011: 97.2%2012: 97.2%2013: 97.2%2014: 97.2%2015: 97.3%2016: 97.3%
Change over the period: +0.1 pp Annual average: 0.01 pp
Handwashing facilities — Bosnia and Herzegovina, by year Bosnia and Herzegovina All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2016 97.3 +0 pp
2015 97.3 +0 pp
2014 97.2 +0 pp
2013 97.2 +0 pp
2012 97.2 +0 pp
2011 97.2 +0 pp
2010 97.2 +0 pp
2009 97.2 +0 pp
2008 97.2

Southern Europe, 2016

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

MK North Macedonia 99.7 ME Montenegro 99.2 BA Bosnia and Herzegovina 97.3

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.