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An interactive water atlas · Demo data

MYWATR

Water
is data.

Behind every tap, latrine and handwashing basin is a row in a table. MYWATR turns that table into a place you can walk through — world, continent, region, country, indicator, year.

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What is MYWATR

One dataset, four questions: who has water, who has sanitation, who has hygiene, and who is left out.

Every indicator is reported three ways — national, urban and rural — because the average almost always hides the gap. The atlas keeps those three dimensions one click apart, everywhere.

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Global snapshot · 2020

Population covered048 countries
At least basic water0.0%Population weighted
At least basic sanitation0.0%Population weighted
Basic hygiene0.0%Soap and water at home

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LowHigh· Basic
Hands filling a container with clean running water

Water

How access changes across the world

1.39B

people without at least basic drinking water in this demo dataset

Water ladder

World · 2020 · National

54.8%
21.2%
9.6%
8.9%
5.5%

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A community water and sanitation point in a rural setting

Sanitation

The ladder nobody sees

8.6%

of the population still practises open defecation

Sanitation ladder

World · 2020 · National

49.2%
21.4%
10.3%
10.5%
8.6%

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Washing hands with soap and water

Hygiene

Soap, water, and the space between them

61.9%

have a handwashing facility with soap and water at home

Hygiene composition · world
Basic: 61.9Limited: 16No Facility: 22.1
62%
  • Basic
  • Limited
  • No Facility

2020, national series.

Urban vs rural

The average is not the story.

Largest urban–rural gaps · basic water
0%25%50%75%100%ROURural: 20.5%Urban: 9.1%11.4 ppARGRural: 19.5%Urban: 8.1%11.4 ppPOLRural: 12.3%Urban: 1%11.3 ppJPNRural: 12.2%Urban: 0.9%11.3 ppDEURural: 12.2%Urban: 0.9%11.3 ppFRARural: 12.2%Urban: 0.9%11.3 ppESPRural: 12.2%Urban: 0.9%11.3 ppITARural: 12.2%Urban: 0.9%11.3 ppGBRRural: 12.2%Urban: 0.9%11.3 ppSWERural: 12.2%Urban: 0.9%11.3 pp
  • Urban
  • Rural

Percentage points, 2020.

World trend by dimension
0255075100200020052010201220152018202020222025Urban · 2000: 19.2%Urban · 2005: 18.3%Urban · 2010: 17.9%Urban · 2012: 17.7%Urban · 2015: 17.3%Urban · 2018: 17.2%Urban · 2020: 16.7%Urban · 2022: 16.6%Urban · 2025: 16.2%National · 2000: 24.9%National · 2005: 23.7%National · 2010: 23.1%National · 2012: 22.8%National · 2015: 22.3%National · 2018: 21.9%National · 2020: 21.2%National · 2022: 21.1%National · 2025: 20.4%Rural · 2000: 30.3%Rural · 2005: 30.3%Rural · 2010: 30.4%Rural · 2012: 30.3%Rural · 2015: 30.3%Rural · 2018: 30.4%Rural · 2020: 30%Rural · 2022: 30%Rural · 2025: 29.5%
  • Urban
  • National
  • Rural

At least basic water, 2000–2025.

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Forty-eight countries, nine reference years, forty-three fields, one interface.

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