Brazil vs Germany: Safe drinking water

Safe drinking water in 2022: 87.3% in Brazil and 99.9% in Germany, by WHO/UNICEF estimates. In 2022 the value was higher in Germany, by 12.7 percentage points, or 1.15 times that in Brazil.

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% of people · WHO/UNICEF

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What the numbers say

Germany has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2000.
The world as a whole: 72.9% in 2022.

Every year

% of people · WHO/UNICEF

Year	Brazil	Germany	World
2022	87.3	99.9	72.9
2021	86.6	99.9	72.5
2020	85.9	99.9	72.3
2019	85.2	99.9	71.7
2018	84.4	99.9	71
2017	83.6	99.9	70.4
2016	82.7	99.9	69.7
2015	82	99.9	69.1
2014	81.2	99.9	68.4
2013	80.4	99.9	67.7
2012	79.6	99.9	67.1
2011	79.3	99.9	66.4
2010	79.1	99.9	65.9
2009	78.8	99.9	65.4
2008	78.6	99.9	64.9
2007	78.3	99.9	64.6
2006	78.1	99.9	64
2005	77.8	99.9	63.7
2004	77.5	99.9	63
2003	77.3	99.8	62.4
2002	77	99.8	61.8
2001	76.6	99.8	61.1
2000	76	99.8	60.8

Each country on its own

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The share of people whose drinking water comes from an improved source at home, there when needed and free of contamination.
Source: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme, via Our World in Data.
Ranks count the 135 countries with a value in 2022, highest first.
The faint line is the world as a whole, as the same source counts it.

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