Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Marshall Islands

Handwashing facilities in the Marshall Islands in 2021 — 85.1%. Ranked 37 in the world out of 106. Since 2013, the indicator has risen by 0.2 pp.

2021 85.1% +0 pp vs 2020
World rank 37of 106
Period maximum 85.1%2021
Period minimum 84.9%2013

Trend over time

2013–2021 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Marshall Islands, 2013–202184.984.9858585.185.12013201420152016201720182019202020212013: 84.9%2014: 84.9%2015: 84.9%2016: 85%2017: 85%2018: 85%2019: 85%2020: 85.1%2021: 85.1%
Change over the period: +0.2 pp Annual average: 0.02 pp

Comparison, 2021

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

Marshall Islands 85.1%
World 73.9%
Handwashing facilities — Marshall Islands, by year Marshall Islands All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2021 85.1 +0 pp
2020 85.1 +0 pp
2019 85 +0 pp
2018 85 +0 pp
2017 85 +0 pp
2016 85 +0 pp
2015 84.9 +0 pp
2014 84.9 +0 pp
2013 84.9

Micronesia, 2021

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

NR Nauru 90.8 MH Marshall Islands 85.1 KI Kiribati 62.1

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.