Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Liberia

Handwashing facilities in Liberia in 2024 — 3.5%. Ranked 91 in the world out of 91. Since 2007, the indicator has risen by 3.5 pp.

2024 3.5% +0 pp vs 2023
World rank 91of 91
Period maximum 3.5%2024
Period minimum 0%2007

Trend over time

2007–2024 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Liberia, 2007–20240123420072009201120132015201720192021202320242007: 0%2008: 0%2009: 0%2010: 0%2011: 0%2012: 0.2%2013: 1.2%2014: 1.4%2015: 1.6%2016: 1.9%2017: 2.1%2018: 2.4%2019: 2.6%2020: 2.9%2021: 3.2%2022: 3.4%2023: 3.5%2024: 3.5%
Change over the period: +3.5 pp Annual average: 0.21 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Liberia 3.5%
World 78%
Western Africa computed 29.3%
Low-income countries computed 24.6%
Handwashing facilities — Liberia, by year Liberia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 3.5 +0 pp
2023 3.5 +0 pp
2022 3.4 +0.3 pp
2021 3.2 +0.3 pp
2020 2.9 +0.3 pp
2019 2.6 +0.3 pp
2018 2.4 +0.3 pp
2017 2.1 +0.2 pp
2016 1.9 +0.2 pp
2015 1.6 +0.2 pp
2014 1.4 +0.2 pp
2013 1.2 +1 pp
2012 0.2 +0.2 pp
2011 0 +0 pp
2010 0 +0 pp
2009 0 +0 pp
2008 0 +0 pp
2007 0

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.