Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Equatorial Guinea

Handwashing facilities in Equatorial Guinea in 2015 — 24.2%. Ranked 75 in the world out of 103. Since 2007, the indicator has risen by 0.6 pp.

2015 24.2% +0 pp vs 2014
World rank 75of 103
Period maximum 24.2%2015
Period minimum 23.6%2007

Trend over time

2007–2015 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Equatorial Guinea, 2007–201523.623.82424.224.42007200820092010201120122013201420152007: 23.6%2008: 23.7%2009: 23.8%2010: 23.9%2011: 24%2012: 24.1%2013: 24.2%2014: 24.2%2015: 24.2%
Change over the period: +0.6 pp Annual average: 0.07 pp

Comparison, 2015

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

Equatorial Guinea 24.2%
Middle Africa computed 25.6%
Handwashing facilities — Equatorial Guinea, by year Equatorial Guinea All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2015 24.2 +0 pp
2014 24.2 +0 pp
2013 24.2 +0 pp
2012 24.1 +0.1 pp
2011 24 +0.1 pp
2010 23.9 +0.1 pp
2009 23.8 +0.1 pp
2008 23.7 +0.1 pp
2007 23.6

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.