Habitation – Worldmapper

No Water Access per capita

tina-gotthardt — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 21:51:51 +0000

The biggest number of the more than 800 milli0n people with no access to at least basic drinking water live in India, followed by Ethiopia, Nigeria and China. Eritrea has the lowest rate of people with access to clean water, less than 20%. Papua New Guinea, Uganda and Ethiopia follow with just below 40%. The worst European country is Serbia, where almost 10% of the population don't have access to clean water. Providing access to clean water and sanitation is one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Water scarcity affects more than 40 percent of people around the world, an alarming figure that is projected to increase with the rise of global temperatures as a result of climate change. Although 2.1 billion people have gained access to improved water sanitation since 1990, dwindling supplies of safe drinking water is a major problem impacting every continent.

No Electricity Access

Worldmapper — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 22:21:47 +0000

Territory size shows the proportion of all people with no access to electrical power in their homes living there that year.

Data sources
This map uses data by the United Nations Statistics Division’s SDG Indicators Global Database [Indicator 7.1.1] (last accessed March 2018). We aim to map as complete data as possible and therefore estimate data for missing values. In some cases, missing data for very small territories is not used in the cartogram and that area is therefore omitted in the map.

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets.

No Basic Sanitation

Worldmapper — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:18:19 +0000

The country with the highest number of people living without access to basic sanitation infrastructure live in India, followed by China and India. Ethiopia and Bangladesh complete the top 5. The lowest rate of people with access to sanitation has Ethiopia with only 7%, followed by Chad and Madagascar, both also just under 10%. There are 22 countries, where only a quarter of the population or less has access to sanitation, all of them in Sub-Saharan Africa. The lowest rate from any European country has Macedonia, where less than half of the population has access to basic sanitation. Providing access to clean water and sanitation is one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Water scarcity affects more than 40 percent of people around the world, an alarming figure that is projected to increase with the rise of global temperatures as a result of climate change. Although 2.1 billion people have gained access to improved water sanitation since 1990, dwindling supplies of safe drinking water is a major problem impacting every continent. Ensuring universal access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030 requires we invest in adequate infrastructure, provide sanitation facilities, and encourage hygiene at every level. Protecting and restoring water-related ecosystems such as forests, mountains, wetlands and rivers is essential if we are to mitigate water scarcity. More international cooperation is also needed to encourage water efficiency and support treatment technologies in developing countries.

Open Defecation

Worldmapper — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 22:39:22 +0000

Open defecation refers to the practise of defecating in fields, forests, bushes, bodies of water or other open spaces. The highest rate of population practicing open defecation live in Ethiopia, more than 75% of the population. Overall there are still six countries where more than half of the population practices open defecation due to a lack of sanitation infrastructure, all of them Sub-Saharan countries. The highest total number of people live in India, followed by Nigeria and Indonesia. The highest rate of open defecation among urban population has Sao Tome and Principe, with more than 40%, among the rural population Eritrea is leading with almost 90%. The elimination of open defecation is recognised as a top priority for improving health, nutrition and productivity of developing country populations and is explicitly mentioned in SDG target 6.2. From the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Water scarcity affects more than 40 percent of people around the world, an alarming figure that is projected to increase with the rise of global temperatures as a result of climate change. Although 2.1 billion people have gained access to improved water sanitation since 1990, dwindling supplies of safe drinking water is a major problem impacting every continent. Ensuring universal access to safe and affordable drinking water for all by 2030 requires we invest in adequate infrastructure, provide sanitation facilities, and encourage hygiene at every level. Protecting and restoring water-related ecosystems such as forests, mountains, wetlands and rivers is essential if we are to mitigate water scarcity. More international cooperation is also needed to encourage water efficiency and support treatment technologies in developing countries.

No Water Access

Worldmapper — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 10:10:53 +0000

No Electricity Access Rural Population

Worldmapper — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 22:13:54 +0000

Territory size shows the proportion of all rural populations with no access to electrical power in their homes living there in 2014.

Further notes on the data, as well as all modifications to the original data source are noted in our data sheets. Data for this map will soon be available as a download.

Urban Population

Worldmapper — Mon, 18 Jun 2018 00:43:10 +0000

More than half of the world's population lives in cities today. This proportion is expected to increase to 66 per cent by 2050. According to the UN's World Urbanization Prospects "the urban population of the world has grown rapidly from 746 million in 1950 to 3.9 billion in 2014. Asia, despite its lower level of urbanization, is home to 53 per cent of the world’s urban population, followed by Europe with 14 per cent and Latin America and the Caribbean with 13 per cent. [...] Overall, nearly half of the world’s 3.9 billion urban dwellers reside in relatively small settlements with fewer than 500,000 inhabitants, while only around one in eight live in the 28 mega-cities with 10 million inhabitants or more. Many of the fastest growing cities in the world are relatively small urban settlements."

Open Defecation Rural

Worldmapper — Sat, 05 May 2018 21:31:22 +0000