Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Guatemala

Handwashing facilities in Guatemala in 2019 — 76.8%. Ranked 48 in the world out of 113. Since 2011, the indicator has risen by 0.4 pp.

2019 76.8% +0.1 pp vs 2018
World rank 48of 113
Period maximum 76.8%2019
Period minimum 76.4%2011

Trend over time

2011–2019 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Guatemala, 2011–201976.476.576.676.776.82011201220132014201520162017201820192011: 76.4%2012: 76.4%2013: 76.5%2014: 76.5%2015: 76.6%2016: 76.6%2017: 76.7%2018: 76.7%2019: 76.8%
Change over the period: +0.4 pp Annual average: 0.05 pp

Comparison, 2019

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

Guatemala 76.8%
World 71.3%
Central America computed 91.5%
Handwashing facilities — Guatemala, by year Guatemala All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2019 76.8 +0.1 pp
2018 76.7 +0 pp
2017 76.7 +0 pp
2016 76.6 +0 pp
2015 76.6 +0 pp
2014 76.5 +0 pp
2013 76.5 +0 pp
2012 76.4 +0 pp
2011 76.4

Central America, 2019

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.