Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Mali

Handwashing facilities in Mali in 2022 — 17.3%. Ranked 94 in the world out of 103. Since 2014, the indicator has risen by 1.1 pp.

2022 17.3% +0.1 pp vs 2021
World rank 94of 103
Period maximum 17.3%2022
Period minimum 16.2%2014

Trend over time

2014–2022 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Mali, 2014–20221616.51717.52014201520162017201820192020202120222014: 16.2%2015: 16.3%2016: 16.5%2017: 16.6%2018: 16.7%2019: 16.9%2020: 17%2021: 17.2%2022: 17.3%
Change over the period: +1.1 pp Annual average: 0.14 pp

Comparison, 2022

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

Mali 17.3%
World 75.1%
Western Africa computed 27.7%
Low-income countries computed 22.7%
Handwashing facilities — Mali, by year Mali All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2022 17.3 +0.1 pp
2021 17.2 +0.1 pp
2020 17 +0.1 pp
2019 16.9 +0.1 pp
2018 16.7 +0.1 pp
2017 16.6 +0.1 pp
2016 16.5 +0.1 pp
2015 16.3 +0.1 pp
2014 16.2

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.