Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Vietnam

Handwashing facilities in Vietnam in 2024 — 89.1%. Ranked 26 in the world out of 91. Since 2005, the indicator has risen by 4.8 pp.

2024 89.1% +0.1 pp vs 2023
World rank 26of 91
Period maximum 89.1%2024
Period minimum 84.3%2005

Trend over time

2005–2024 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Vietnam, 2005–202484868890200520072009201120132015201720192021202320242005: 84.3%2006: 84.4%2007: 84.4%2008: 84.5%2009: 84.6%2010: 84.9%2011: 85.2%2012: 85.5%2013: 85.8%2014: 86.1%2015: 86.5%2016: 86.8%2017: 87.1%2018: 87.4%2019: 87.7%2020: 88.1%2021: 88.4%2022: 88.7%2023: 89%2024: 89.1%
Change over the period: +4.8 pp Annual average: 0.25 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Vietnam 89.1%
World 78%
South-Eastern Asia computed 85.6%
Handwashing facilities — Vietnam, by year Vietnam All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 89.1 +0.1 pp
2023 89 +0.3 pp
2022 88.7 +0.3 pp
2021 88.4 +0.3 pp
2020 88.1 +0.3 pp
2019 87.7 +0.3 pp
2018 87.4 +0.3 pp
2017 87.1 +0.3 pp
2016 86.8 +0.3 pp
2015 86.5 +0.3 pp
2014 86.1 +0.3 pp
2013 85.8 +0.3 pp
2012 85.5 +0.3 pp
2011 85.2 +0.3 pp
2010 84.9 +0.3 pp
2009 84.6 +0.1 pp
2008 84.5 +0.1 pp
2007 84.4 +0.1 pp
2006 84.4 +0.1 pp
2005 84.3

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.