Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Thailand

Handwashing facilities in Thailand in 2024 — 94.6%. Ranked 17 in the world out of 91. Since 2010, the indicator has risen by 15.4 pp.

2024 94.6% +1.5 pp vs 2023
World rank 17of 91
Period maximum 94.6%2024
Period minimum 79.3%2010

Trend over time

2010–2024 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Thailand, 2010–20247580859095201020122014201620182020202220242010: 79.3%2011: 79.3%2012: 79.3%2013: 79.3%2014: 79.4%2015: 80.9%2016: 82.4%2017: 84%2018: 85.5%2019: 87%2020: 88.6%2021: 90.1%2022: 91.6%2023: 93.1%2024: 94.6%
Change over the period: +15.4 pp Annual average: 1.1 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Thailand 94.6%
World 78%
South-Eastern Asia computed 85.6%
Handwashing facilities — Thailand, by year Thailand All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 94.6 +1.5 pp
2023 93.1 +1.5 pp
2022 91.6 +1.5 pp
2021 90.1 +1.5 pp
2020 88.6 +1.5 pp
2019 87 +1.5 pp
2018 85.5 +1.5 pp
2017 84 +1.5 pp
2016 82.4 +1.5 pp
2015 80.9 +1.5 pp
2014 79.4 +0 pp
2013 79.3 +0 pp
2012 79.3 +0 pp
2011 79.3 +0 pp
2010 79.3

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.