Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Libya

Handwashing facilities in Libya in 2024 — 95.6%. Ranked 13 in the world out of 91.

2024 95.6% +0 pp vs 2023
World rank 13of 91
Period maximum 95.6%2018
Period minimum 95.6%2018

Trend over time

2018–2024 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Libya, 2018–2024809010011020182019202020212022202320242018: 95.6%2019: 95.6%2020: 95.6%2021: 95.6%2022: 95.6%2023: 95.6%2024: 95.6%
Change over the period: +0 pp Annual average: 0 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Libya 95.6%
World 78%
Northern Africa computed 73.3%
Handwashing facilities — Libya, by year Libya All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 95.6 +0 pp
2023 95.6 +0 pp
2022 95.6 +0 pp
2021 95.6 +0 pp
2020 95.6 +0 pp
2019 95.6 +0 pp
2018 95.6

Northern Africa, 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.