Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Mozambique

Handwashing facilities in Mozambique in 2024 — 15.8%. Ranked 85 in the world out of 91. Since 2005, the indicator has risen by 4.6 pp.

2024 15.8% +0.3 pp vs 2023
World rank 85of 91
Period maximum 15.8%2024
Period minimum 11.2%2005

Trend over time

2005–2024 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Mozambique, 2005–202410121416200520072009201120132015201720192021202320242005: 11.2%2006: 11.2%2007: 11.3%2008: 11.3%2009: 11.4%2010: 11.7%2011: 11.9%2012: 12.2%2013: 12.5%2014: 12.8%2015: 13.1%2016: 13.4%2017: 13.7%2018: 14%2019: 14.3%2020: 14.6%2021: 14.9%2022: 15.2%2023: 15.5%2024: 15.8%
Change over the period: +4.6 pp Annual average: 0.24 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Mozambique 15.8%
World 78%
Eastern Africa computed 21%
Low-income countries computed 24.6%
Handwashing facilities — Mozambique, by year Mozambique All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 15.8 +0.3 pp
2023 15.5 +0.3 pp
2022 15.2 +0.3 pp
2021 14.9 +0.3 pp
2020 14.6 +0.3 pp
2019 14.3 +0.3 pp
2018 14 +0.3 pp
2017 13.7 +0.3 pp
2016 13.4 +0.3 pp
2015 13.1 +0.3 pp
2014 12.8 +0.3 pp
2013 12.5 +0.3 pp
2012 12.2 +0.3 pp
2011 11.9 +0.3 pp
2010 11.7 +0.3 pp
2009 11.4 +0.1 pp
2008 11.3 +0.1 pp
2007 11.3 +0 pp
2006 11.2 +0 pp
2005 11.2

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.