Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Guinea

Handwashing facilities in Guinea in 2022 — 20.6%. Ranked 85 in the world out of 103. Since 2014, the indicator has risen by 0.6 pp.

2022 20.6% +0.1 pp vs 2021
World rank 85of 103
Period maximum 20.6%2022
Period minimum 20.1%2014

Trend over time

2014–2022 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Guinea, 2014–20222020.220.420.620.82014201520162017201820192020202120222014: 20.1%2015: 20.1%2016: 20.2%2017: 20.3%2018: 20.3%2019: 20.4%2020: 20.5%2021: 20.6%2022: 20.6%
Change over the period: +0.6 pp Annual average: 0.07 pp

Comparison, 2022

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

Guinea 20.6%
World 75.1%
Western Africa computed 27.7%
Handwashing facilities — Guinea, by year Guinea All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2022 20.6 +0.1 pp
2021 20.6 +0.1 pp
2020 20.5 +0.1 pp
2019 20.4 +0.1 pp
2018 20.3 +0.1 pp
2017 20.3 +0.1 pp
2016 20.2 +0.1 pp
2015 20.1 +0.1 pp
2014 20.1

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.