Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Cabo Verde

Handwashing facilities in Cabo Verde in 2024 — 60.9%. Ranked 51 in the world out of 91. Since 2019, the indicator has risen by 0.8 pp.

2024 60.9% +0.1 pp vs 2023
World rank 51of 91
Period maximum 60.9%2024
Period minimum 60.1%2019

Trend over time

2019–2024 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Cabo Verde, 2019–20246060.260.460.660.8612019202020212022202320242019: 60.1%2020: 60.3%2021: 60.4%2022: 60.6%2023: 60.7%2024: 60.9%
Change over the period: +0.8 pp Annual average: 0.15 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Cabo Verde 60.9%
World 78%
Western Africa computed 29.3%
Handwashing facilities — Cabo Verde, by year Cabo Verde All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 60.9 +0.1 pp
2023 60.7 +0.1 pp
2022 60.6 +0.2 pp
2021 60.4 +0.2 pp
2020 60.3 +0.2 pp
2019 60.1

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.