Indicator field guide / SH.H2O.BASW.ZS

Basic drinking water

The percentage using at least basic drinking water services: an improved source where collection takes no more than 30 minutes for a round trip including queuing. It is not equivalent to safely managed drinking water.

Unit: % of population. Original provider definition and metadata ↗

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Covered economies, 2023

Economy	Value
Afghanistan	78.9%
Albania	95.1%
Algeria	92.4%
Andorra	100.0%
Angola	67.2%
Antigua and Barbuda	98.9%
Armenia	99.9%
Australia	100.0%
Austria	100.0%
Azerbaijan	96.8%
Bahrain	99.9%
Bangladesh	98.7%
Barbados	99.2%
Belarus	99.9%
Belgium	100.0%
Belize	94.8%
Benin	69.3%
Bermuda	100.0%
Bhutan	99.4%
Bolivia	93.0%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	96.1%
Botswana	91.7%
Brazil	99.9%
Brunei Darussalam	100.0%
Bulgaria	99.2%
Burkina Faso	49.5%
Burundi	65.8%
Cabo Verde	91.1%
Cambodia	81.9%
Cameroon	70.7%
Canada	98.3%
Cayman Islands	95.5%
Central African Republic	36.4%
Chad	52.1%
Chile	99.0%
China	96.1%
Colombia	97.0%
Comoros	85.2%
Congo, Dem. Rep.	35.4%
Costa Rica	99.8%
Cote d'Ivoire	77.0%
Croatia	99.9%
Curacao	100.0%
Cyprus	99.7%
Czechia	98.7%
Denmark	100.0%
Djibouti	79.4%
Dominica	96.9%
Dominican Republic	97.4%
Ecuador	91.9%
Egypt, Arab Rep.	97.4%
El Salvador	91.2%
Estonia	100.0%
Eswatini	79.2%
Ethiopia	54.1%
Faroe Islands	100.0%
Fiji	95.5%
Finland	100.0%
France	100.0%
Gabon	88.5%
Gambia, The	86.7%
Georgia	97.2%
Germany	100.0%
Ghana	88.9%
Greece	100.0%
Greenland	100.0%
Guatemala	93.0%
Guinea	73.4%
Guinea-Bissau	61.7%
Guyana	95.6%
Haiti	72.6%
Honduras	95.4%
Hong Kong SAR, China	100.0%
Hungary	100.0%
Iceland	100.0%
India	95.1%
Indonesia	89.4%
Iran, Islamic Rep.	97.7%
Iraq	98.4%
Ireland	97.1%
Israel	100.0%
Italy	99.9%
Jamaica	87.9%
Japan	99.2%
Jordan	99.3%
Kazakhstan	97.8%
Kenya	64.8%
Kiribati	78.9%
Korea, Rep.	100.0%
Kuwait	100.0%
Kyrgyz Republic	94.3%
Lao PDR	92.6%
Latvia	98.7%
Lebanon	92.6%
Lesotho	77.5%
Liberia	78.2%
Libya	96.1%
Lithuania	99.9%
Luxembourg	100.0%
Macao SAR, China	100.0%
Madagascar	54.5%
Malawi	72.2%
Malaysia	97.9%
Maldives	99.7%
Mali	85.1%
Malta	100.0%
Marshall Islands	87.5%
Mauritania	76.4%
Mauritius	99.9%
Mexico	99.4%
Moldova	92.3%
Mongolia	85.3%
Montenegro	99.3%
Morocco	91.2%
Mozambique	64.5%
Myanmar	85.6%
Namibia	86.1%
Naoero	97.9%
Nepal	93.1%
Netherlands	100.0%
New Zealand	100.0%
Niger	52.8%
Nigeria	81.1%
North Macedonia	98.2%
Norway	100.0%
Oman	92.6%
Pakistan	90.7%
Palau	99.5%
Panama	95.1%
Papua New Guinea	52.3%
Paraguay	99.6%
Peru	95.1%
Philippines	95.5%
Poland	90.6%
Portugal	99.3%
Puerto Rico (US)	100.0%
Qatar	100.0%
Romania	100.0%
Russian Federation	96.9%
Rwanda	60.8%
Samoa	98.9%
San Marino	100.0%
Sao Tome and Principe	77.8%
Saudi Arabia	99.0%
Senegal	86.9%
Serbia	95.4%
Seychelles	97.6%
Sierra Leone	66.9%
Singapore	100.0%
Slovak Republic	99.8%
Slovenia	99.6%
Solomon Islands	71.5%
Somalia, Fed. Rep.	72.8%
South Africa	90.4%
Spain	99.9%
Sri Lanka	90.2%
St. Lucia	98.1%
Sudan	64.0%
Suriname	98.0%
Sweden	99.8%
Switzerland	100.0%
Tajikistan	89.2%
Tanzania	63.1%
Thailand	100.0%
Timor-Leste	85.9%
Togo	63.8%
Tonga	98.9%
Trinidad and Tobago	99.1%
Tunisia	96.3%
Turkiye	96.0%
Turkmenistan	99.9%
Turks and Caicos Islands	98.8%
Tuvalu	98.8%
Uganda	61.3%
Ukraine	93.5%
United Arab Emirates	100.0%
United Kingdom	100.0%
United States	100.0%
Uruguay	99.6%
Uzbekistan	97.0%
Vanuatu	87.1%
Viet Nam	98.2%
West Bank and Gaza	98.8%
Zambia	72.4%
Zimbabwe	67.2%

Snapshot retrieval: 2026-11-01. Coverage is limited to the atlas comparison set. Download and limitations.