Safely managed sanitation — all countries

Safely managed sanitation — Euro area

Safely managed sanitation in the Euro area in 2024 — 89.9%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 3.7 pp.

2024 89.9% +0.1 pp vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 89.9%2024
Period minimum 86.2%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of population

Safely managed sanitation — Euro area, 2000–202486878889902000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 86.2%2001: 86.3%2002: 86.4%2003: 86.4%2004: 86.6%2005: 86.7%2006: 86.9%2007: 87%2008: 87.2%2009: 87.3%2010: 87.5%2011: 87.6%2012: 87.8%2013: 88%2014: 88.3%2015: 88.5%2016: 88.7%2017: 89%2018: 89.2%2019: 89.3%2020: 89.4%2021: 89.5%2022: 89.7%2023: 89.8%2024: 89.9%
Change over the period: +3.7 pp Annual average: 0.16 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Euro area 89.9%
World 58.5%
Safely managed sanitation — Euro area, by year Euro area All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 89.9 +0.1 pp
2023 89.8 +0.1 pp
2022 89.7 +0.2 pp
2021 89.5 +0.1 pp
2020 89.4 +0.1 pp
2019 89.3 +0.1 pp
2018 89.2 +0.2 pp
2017 89 +0.2 pp
2016 88.7 +0.2 pp
2015 88.5 +0.2 pp
2014 88.3 +0.2 pp
2013 88 +0.2 pp
2012 87.8 +0.2 pp
2011 87.6 +0.1 pp
2010 87.5 +0.2 pp
2009 87.3 +0.2 pp
2008 87.2 +0.1 pp
2007 87 +0.1 pp
2006 86.9 +0.1 pp
2005 86.7 +0.1 pp
2004 86.6 +0.2 pp
2003 86.4 +0.1 pp
2002 86.4 +0.1 pp
2001 86.3 +0.1 pp
2000 86.2

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.