Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Madagascar

Handwashing facilities in Madagascar in 2024 — 23.5%. Ranked 73 in the world out of 91. Since 2000, the indicator has fallen by 0.2 pp.

2024 23.5% +0.1 pp vs 2023
World rank 73of 91
Period maximum 23.9%2002
Period minimum 23.4%2023

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Madagascar, 2000–202423.223.423.623.8242000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 23.7%2001: 23.8%2002: 23.9%2003: 23.8%2004: 23.7%2005: 23.7%2006: 23.7%2007: 23.7%2008: 23.7%2009: 23.7%2010: 23.7%2011: 23.7%2012: 23.7%2013: 23.7%2014: 23.7%2015: 23.7%2016: 23.6%2017: 23.6%2018: 23.6%2019: 23.5%2020: 23.5%2021: 23.5%2022: 23.4%2023: 23.4%2024: 23.5%
Change over the period: −0.2 pp Annual average: -0.01 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Madagascar 23.5%
World 78%
Eastern Africa computed 21%
Low-income countries computed 24.6%
Handwashing facilities — Madagascar, by year Madagascar All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 23.5 +0.1 pp
2023 23.4 −0 pp
2022 23.4 −0 pp
2021 23.5 −0 pp
2020 23.5 −0 pp
2019 23.5 −0 pp
2018 23.6 −0 pp
2017 23.6 −0 pp
2016 23.6 −0 pp
2015 23.7 −0 pp
2014 23.7 −0 pp
2013 23.7 −0 pp
2012 23.7 −0 pp
2011 23.7 −0 pp
2010 23.7 −0 pp
2009 23.7 −0 pp
2008 23.7 +0 pp
2007 23.7 +0 pp
2006 23.7 +0 pp
2005 23.7 +0 pp
2004 23.7 −0.1 pp
2003 23.8 −0.1 pp
2002 23.9 +0.1 pp
2001 23.8 +0.1 pp
2000 23.7

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.