Handwashing facilities — all countries

Handwashing facilities — Zimbabwe

Handwashing facilities in Zimbabwe in 2024 — 42.5%. Ranked 60 in the world out of 91. Since 2009, the indicator has fallen by 0.1 pp.

2024 42.5% +0 pp vs 2023
World rank 60of 91
Period maximum 42.6%2009
Period minimum 42.4%2018

Trend over time

2009–2024 · % of population

Handwashing facilities — Zimbabwe, 2009–202442.442.542.642.72009201120132015201720192021202320242009: 42.6%2010: 42.6%2011: 42.6%2012: 42.5%2013: 42.5%2014: 42.5%2015: 42.5%2016: 42.4%2017: 42.4%2018: 42.4%2019: 42.4%2020: 42.4%2021: 42.4%2022: 42.5%2023: 42.5%2024: 42.5%
Change over the period: −0.1 pp Annual average: -0.01 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Zimbabwe 42.5%
World 78%
Eastern Africa computed 21%
Handwashing facilities — Zimbabwe, by year Zimbabwe All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 42.5 +0 pp
2023 42.5 +0 pp
2022 42.5 +0 pp
2021 42.4 +0 pp
2020 42.4 +0 pp
2019 42.4 +0 pp
2018 42.4 −0 pp
2017 42.4 −0 pp
2016 42.4 −0 pp
2015 42.5 −0 pp
2014 42.5 −0 pp
2013 42.5 −0 pp
2012 42.5 −0 pp
2011 42.6 −0 pp
2010 42.6 −0 pp
2009 42.6

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.