KEY-FACTS ON SANITATION
SOME KEY-FACTS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE
• 4.2 billion people live without safely managed sanitation — more than half the global population.
• 673 million people still pract@e open defecation worldwide.
• Globally, at least 2 billion people use a drinking water source contaminated with faeces.
• Inadequate sanitation is estimated to cause 432,000 diarrhoeal deaths every year and is a major
factor in diseases such as intestinal worms and trachoma.
• Children underihe age of five Ijying in "yntries affected by protracted conflict are, on average,
nearl 20 times more:likelyJOGe fromdiarrhöeal diseases caused by a lack of safe water, sanitation
'and hygiene than direct violence. (UNICEF 2019)