Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Georgia

Handwashing facilities in Georgia in 2022 — 91.8%. Ranked 23 in the world out of 103. Since 2014, the indicator has risen by 0.2 pp.

2022 91.8% +0 pp vs 2021
World rank 23of 103
Period maximum 91.8%2022
Period minimum 91.5%2014

Trend over time

2014–2022 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Georgia, 2014–202291.591.691.791.82014201520162017201820192020202120222014: 91.5%2015: 91.6%2016: 91.6%2017: 91.6%2018: 91.6%2019: 91.7%2020: 91.7%2021: 91.7%2022: 91.8%
Change over the period: +0.2 pp Annual average: 0.03 pp

Comparison, 2022

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

Georgia 91.8%
World 75.1%
Handwashing facilities — Georgia, by year Georgia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2022 91.8 +0 pp
2021 91.7 +0 pp
2020 91.7 +0 pp
2019 91.7 +0 pp
2018 91.6 +0 pp
2017 91.6 +0 pp
2016 91.6 +0 pp
2015 91.6 +0 pp
2014 91.5

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.