Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Tuvalu

Handwashing facilities in Tuvalu in 2024 — 93.9%. Ranked 19 in the world out of 91. Since 2016, the indicator has fallen by 0.2 pp.

2024 93.9% −0 pp vs 2023
World rank 19of 91
Period maximum 94.1%2016
Period minimum 93.9%2024

Trend over time

2016–2024 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Tuvalu, 2016–202493.99494.194.22016201720182019202020212022202320242016: 94.1%2017: 94.1%2018: 94.1%2019: 94%2020: 94%2021: 94%2022: 94%2023: 93.9%2024: 93.9%
Change over the period: −0.2 pp Annual average: -0.03 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Tuvalu 93.9%
World 78%
Handwashing facilities — Tuvalu, by year Tuvalu All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 93.9 −0 pp
2023 93.9 −0 pp
2022 94 −0 pp
2021 94 −0 pp
2020 94 −0 pp
2019 94 −0 pp
2018 94.1 −0 pp
2017 94.1 −0 pp
2016 94.1

Polynesia, 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.