Safely managed sanitation — all countries

Safely managed sanitation — Ethiopia

Safely managed sanitation in Ethiopia in 2024 — 8.1%. Ranked 141 in the world out of 141. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 5.8 pp.

2024 8.1% +0.3 pp vs 2023
World rank 141of 141
Period maximum 8.1%2024
Period minimum 2.3%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of population

Safely managed sanitation — Ethiopia, 2000–202402.557.5102000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 2.3%2001: 2.5%2002: 2.7%2003: 2.9%2004: 3.1%2005: 3.3%2006: 3.6%2007: 3.8%2008: 4%2009: 4.3%2010: 4.5%2011: 4.8%2012: 5%2013: 5.3%2014: 5.5%2015: 5.7%2016: 6%2017: 6.2%2018: 6.5%2019: 6.7%2020: 7%2021: 7.3%2022: 7.5%2023: 7.8%2024: 8.1%
Change over the period: +5.8 pp Annual average: 0.24 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Ethiopia 8.1%
World 58.5%
Low-income countries computed 18.5%
Safely managed sanitation — Ethiopia, by year Ethiopia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 8.1 +0.3 pp
2023 7.8 +0.3 pp
2022 7.5 +0.3 pp
2021 7.3 +0.3 pp
2020 7 +0.3 pp
2019 6.7 +0.3 pp
2018 6.5 +0.3 pp
2017 6.2 +0.3 pp
2016 6 +0.2 pp
2015 5.7 +0.2 pp
2014 5.5 +0.2 pp
2013 5.3 +0.2 pp
2012 5 +0.2 pp
2011 4.8 +0.2 pp
2010 4.5 +0.2 pp
2009 4.3 +0.2 pp
2008 4 +0.2 pp
2007 3.8 +0.2 pp
2006 3.6 +0.2 pp
2005 3.3 +0.2 pp
2004 3.1 +0.2 pp
2003 2.9 +0.2 pp
2002 2.7 +0.2 pp
2001 2.5 +0.2 pp
2000 2.3

About the indicator

The share of the population with safely managed sanitation — the top rung of the WHO and UNICEF ladder. Having a separate toilet is not enough: the waste must either be treated on the spot or removed and treated elsewhere. It is the second condition that makes the indicator far more demanding than basic sanitation: in many large cities almost everyone has a toilet, but there are no treatment facilities for the whole volume of wastewater, and by this measure a country turns out to be noticeably lower.

Important: It accounts not only for the presence of a toilet but also for the fate of the wastewater, so the values are substantially lower than those of basic sanitation.

Source: Global Health Observatory (WHO), license CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO.