Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Myanmar

Handwashing facilities in Myanmar in 2024 — 74.7%. Ranked 42 in the world out of 91. Since 2010, the indicator has risen by 0.4 pp.

2024 74.7% +0 pp vs 2023
World rank 42of 91
Period maximum 74.7%2024
Period minimum 74.2%2010

Trend over time

2010–2024 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Myanmar, 2010–202474.274.474.674.8201020122014201620182020202220242010: 74.2%2011: 74.3%2012: 74.3%2013: 74.3%2014: 74.3%2015: 74.3%2016: 74.4%2017: 74.4%2018: 74.4%2019: 74.5%2020: 74.5%2021: 74.5%2022: 74.6%2023: 74.6%2024: 74.7%
Change over the period: +0.4 pp Annual average: 0.03 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Myanmar 74.7%
World 78%
South-Eastern Asia computed 85.6%
Handwashing facilities — Myanmar, by year Myanmar All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 74.7 +0 pp
2023 74.6 +0 pp
2022 74.6 +0 pp
2021 74.5 +0 pp
2020 74.5 +0 pp
2019 74.5 +0 pp
2018 74.4 +0 pp
2017 74.4 +0 pp
2016 74.4 +0 pp
2015 74.3 +0 pp
2014 74.3 +0 pp
2013 74.3 +0 pp
2012 74.3 +0 pp
2011 74.3 +0 pp
2010 74.2

South-Eastern Asia, 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.