Brazil vs Netherlands: Safe drinking water

Safe drinking water in 2022: 87.3% in Brazil and 100% in Netherlands, by WHO/UNICEF estimates. In 2022 the value was higher in Netherlands, by 12.7 percentage points, or 1.15 times that in Brazil.

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% of people · WHO/UNICEF

BrazilNetherlandsWorld

What the numbers say

Netherlands has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2000.
In 2022, Brazil ranked 63 and Netherlands ranked 12 of 135 countries, counting from the highest.
The world as a whole: 72.9% in 2022.

Every year

% of people · WHO/UNICEF

Year	Brazil	Netherlands	World
2022	87.3	100	72.9
2021	86.6	100	72.5
2020	85.9	100	72.3
2019	85.2	100	71.7
2018	84.4	100	71
2017	83.6	100	70.4
2016	82.7	100	69.7
2015	82	100	69.1
2014	81.2	100	68.4
2013	80.4	100	67.7
2012	79.6	100	67.1
2011	79.3	100	66.4
2010	79.1	100	65.9
2009	78.8	100	65.4
2008	78.6	100	64.9
2007	78.3	100	64.6
2006	78.1	100	64
2005	77.8	100	63.7
2004	77.5	100	63
2003	77.3	100	62.4
2002	77	100	61.8
2001	76.6	100	61.1
2000	76	100	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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