Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Fiji

Handwashing facilities in Fiji in 2024 — 86.6%. Ranked 30 in the world out of 91. Since 2017, the indicator has risen by 0.4 pp.

2024 86.6% +0.1 pp vs 2023
World rank 30of 91
Period maximum 86.6%2024
Period minimum 86.3%2017

Trend over time

2017–2024 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Fiji, 2017–202486.286.386.486.586.686.7201720182019202020212022202320242017: 86.3%2018: 86.3%2019: 86.4%2020: 86.4%2021: 86.5%2022: 86.5%2023: 86.6%2024: 86.6%
Change over the period: +0.4 pp Annual average: 0.05 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Fiji 86.6%
World 78%
Melanesia computed 39.8%
Handwashing facilities — Fiji, by year Fiji All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 86.6 +0.1 pp
2023 86.6 +0.1 pp
2022 86.5 +0.1 pp
2021 86.5 +0.1 pp
2020 86.4 +0.1 pp
2019 86.4 +0.1 pp
2018 86.3 +0.1 pp
2017 86.3

Melanesia, 2024

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.