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Panama: People practicing open defecation, urban

0.20percent · 2024-76.2% since 2014

People practicing open defecation refers to the percentage of the population defecating in the open, such as in fields, forest, bushes, open bodies of water, on beaches, in other open spaces or disposed of with solid waste. Annual figures for Panama from 2000 to 2024.

20002024

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20240.2
20230.263
20220.327
20210.391
20200.455
20190.519
20180.583
20170.647
20160.711
20150.775
20140.839
20130.903
20120.967
20111.031
20101.095
20091.159
20081.222
20071.286
20061.35
20051.414
20041.478
20031.542
20021.606
20011.67
20001.734

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by World Health Organization, UNICEF. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Bank (2026). People practicing open defecation, urban. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-people-practicing-open-defecation-urban (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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