Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Paraguay

Handwashing facilities in Paraguay in 2020 — 80.2%. Ranked 45 in the world out of 109. Since 2012, the indicator has risen by 0.3 pp.

2020 80.2% +0 pp vs 2019
World rank 45of 109
Period maximum 80.2%2020
Period minimum 79.9%2012

Trend over time

2012–2020 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Paraguay, 2012–202079.879.98080.180.22012201320142015201620172018201920202012: 79.9%2013: 79.9%2014: 79.9%2015: 80%2016: 80%2017: 80%2018: 80.1%2019: 80.1%2020: 80.2%
Change over the period: +0.3 pp Annual average: 0.04 pp

Comparison, 2020

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

Paraguay 80.2%
World 72.5%
Handwashing facilities — Paraguay, by year Paraguay All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2020 80.2 +0 pp
2019 80.1 +0 pp
2018 80.1 +0 pp
2017 80 +0 pp
2016 80 +0 pp
2015 80 +0 pp
2014 79.9 +0 pp
2013 79.9 +0 pp
2012 79.9

South America, 2020

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.