Safely managed sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa
25.9% of people in Sub-Saharan Africa used safely managed sanitation in 2024. The value for 2024 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2000.
Sub-Saharan Africa is a group: World Bank region. The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
Sub-Saharan Africa, 2024
25.9%
Change from 2023
+0.3percentage points
World, 2024
58.5%
Safely managed sanitation in Sub-Saharan Africa over time
View
Sub-Saharan Africa
World
×
The chart loads when you scroll to it. The table below shows the same data.
The chart shows a calculation from the published values. The table below keeps the published values.
% of population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.
| Period | Sub-Saharan Africa | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 25.9% | 58.5% |
| 2023 | 25.6% | 57.8% |
| 2022 | 25.3% | 57.0% |
| 2021 | 24.7% | 56.1% |
| 2020 | 24.2% | 55.2% |
| 2019 | 23.6% | 54.2% |
| 2018 | 23.1% | 52.8% |
| 2017 | 22.6% | 51.3% |
| 2016 | 22.1% | 49.9% |
| 2015 | 21.6% | 48.4% |
| 2014 | 21.1% | 46.9% |
| 2013 | 20.7% | 45.5% |
| 2012 | 20.2% | 44.1% |
| 2011 | 19.8% | 42.8% |
| 2010 | 19.5% | 41.5% |
| 2009 | 19.1% | 40.2% |
| 2008 | 18.7% | 38.9% |
| 2007 | 18.3% | 37.6% |
| 2006 | 17.8% | 36.3% |
| 2005 | 17.4% | 35.1% |
| 2004 | 17.0% | 34.0% |
| 2003 | 16.7% | 32.8% |
| 2002 | 16.3% | 31.7% |
| 2001 | 16.0% | 31.7% |
| 2000 | 15.8% | 31.3% |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- That is a change of +0.3 percentage points from 25.6% in 2023.
- Since 2014, when it was 21.1%, the figure has changed by +4.8 percentage points.
- The figure for the world in 2024 was 58.5%.