Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Tanzania

Handwashing facilities in Tanzania in 2024 — 17.5%. Ranked 83 in the world out of 91. Since 2017, the indicator has risen by 0.4 pp.

2024 17.5% +0.1 pp vs 2023
World rank 83of 91
Period maximum 17.5%2024
Period minimum 17.1%2017

Trend over time

2017–2024 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Tanzania, 2017–202417.117.217.317.417.5201720182019202020212022202320242017: 17.1%2018: 17.2%2019: 17.2%2020: 17.3%2021: 17.3%2022: 17.4%2023: 17.4%2024: 17.5%
Change over the period: +0.4 pp Annual average: 0.05 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Tanzania 17.5%
World 78%
Eastern Africa computed 21%
Handwashing facilities — Tanzania, by year Tanzania All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 17.5 +0.1 pp
2023 17.4 +0.1 pp
2022 17.4 +0.1 pp
2021 17.3 +0.1 pp
2020 17.3 +0.1 pp
2019 17.2 +0.1 pp
2018 17.2 +0.1 pp
2017 17.1

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.