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Living standards · SH.H2O.BASW.ZS

Basic drinking water

The percentage of the population using at least basic drinking water services.

Weighted average · not a median

First official point · 2000

80.6

% of population

Latest official point · 2024

91.5

% of population

Published World points

25

2000–2024

Gaps are years without a published World value. The line is not interpolated.

How this series is built

Population-weighted average. Not a median of countries.

Official WHO / UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) series for SDG 6.1, accessed via World Bank WDI. Only years with a published World value are shown.

Source

Aggregate
Weighted average · not a median
Producer
WHO and UNICEF JMP
Series
WHO / UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme
Series code
SH.H2O.BASW.ZS
License
CC BY 4.0
Fetched
2026-08-17