Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — South-Eastern Asia

Handwashing facilities in South-Eastern Asia in 2024 — 85.6%. Since 2011, the indicator has risen by 9.2 pp.

2024 85.6% +0.8 pp vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 85.6%2024
Period minimum 76.4%2011

Trend over time

2011–2024 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — South-Eastern Asia, 2011–20247577.58082.58587.5201120132015201720192021202320242011: 76.4%2012: 76.5%2013: 76.8%2014: 77%2015: 77.5%2016: 78.4%2017: 79.3%2018: 80.2%2019: 81.1%2020: 82%2021: 83%2022: 83.9%2023: 84.7%2024: 85.6%
Change over the period: +9.2 pp Annual average: 0.71 pp

Comparison, 2024

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: South-Eastern Asia

South-Eastern Asia 85.6%
World 78%
Handwashing facilities — South-Eastern Asia, by year South-Eastern Asia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 85.6 +0.8 pp
2023 84.7 +0.9 pp
2022 83.9 +0.9 pp
2021 83 +1 pp
2020 82 +0.9 pp
2019 81.1 +0.9 pp
2018 80.2 +0.9 pp
2017 79.3 +0.9 pp
2016 78.4 +0.9 pp
2015 77.5 +0.4 pp
2014 77 +0.3 pp
2013 76.8 +0.3 pp
2012 76.5 +0.1 pp
2011 76.4

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.