Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Solomon Islands

Handwashing facilities in the Solomon Islands in 2019 — 38.6%. Ranked 75 in the world out of 113. Since 2011, the indicator has risen by 1.6 pp.

2019 38.6% +0.2 pp vs 2018
World rank 75of 113
Period maximum 38.6%2019
Period minimum 37.1%2011

Trend over time

2011–2019 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Solomon Islands, 2011–20193737.53838.5392011201220132014201520162017201820192011: 37.1%2012: 37.3%2013: 37.5%2014: 37.7%2015: 37.9%2016: 38.1%2017: 38.2%2018: 38.4%2019: 38.6%
Change over the period: +1.6 pp Annual average: 0.2 pp

Comparison, 2019

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

Solomon Islands 38.6%
World 71.3%
Melanesia computed 39.7%
Handwashing facilities — Solomon Islands, by year Solomon Islands All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2019 38.6 +0.2 pp
2018 38.4 +0.2 pp
2017 38.2 +0.2 pp
2016 38.1 +0.2 pp
2015 37.9 +0.2 pp
2014 37.7 +0.2 pp
2013 37.5 +0.2 pp
2012 37.3 +0.2 pp
2011 37.1

Melanesia, 2019

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.