Safely managed sanitation — all countries

Safely managed sanitation — Southern Europe

Safely managed sanitation in Southern Europe in 2024 — 80.5%. Since 2000, the indicator has risen by 6.5 pp.

2024 80.5% +0.2 pp vs 2023
World rank
Period maximum 80.5%2024
Period minimum 74%2000

Trend over time

2000–2024 · % of population

Safely managed sanitation — Southern Europe, 2000–202474767880822000200320062009201220152018202120242000: 74%2001: 74.1%2002: 74.3%2003: 74.6%2004: 74.9%2005: 75.2%2006: 75.3%2007: 75.6%2008: 75.9%2009: 76.2%2010: 76.5%2011: 76.8%2012: 77.1%2013: 77.5%2014: 77.8%2015: 78.1%2016: 78.5%2017: 78.9%2018: 79.2%2019: 79.8%2020: 79.9%2021: 79.9%2022: 80.2%2023: 80.3%2024: 80.5%
Change over the period: +6.5 pp Annual average: 0.27 pp

Comparison, 2024

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

Southern Europe 80.5%
World 58.5%
Safely managed sanitation — Southern Europe, by year Southern Europe All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2024 80.5 +0.2 pp
2023 80.3 +0.1 pp
2022 80.2 +0.3 pp
2021 79.9 +0.1 pp
2020 79.9 +0.1 pp
2019 79.8 +0.6 pp
2018 79.2 +0.3 pp
2017 78.9 +0.4 pp
2016 78.5 +0.4 pp
2015 78.1 +0.3 pp
2014 77.8 +0.3 pp
2013 77.5 +0.3 pp
2012 77.1 +0.3 pp
2011 76.8 +0.3 pp
2010 76.5 +0.3 pp
2009 76.2 +0.3 pp
2008 75.9 +0.3 pp
2007 75.6 +0.3 pp
2006 75.3 +0.1 pp
2005 75.2 +0.3 pp
2004 74.9 +0.4 pp
2003 74.6 +0.2 pp
2002 74.3 +0.2 pp
2001 74.1 +0.1 pp
2000 74

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.