Iraq vs Kuwait: Safe drinking water

Safe drinking water in 2022: 59.7% in Iraq and 100% in Kuwait, by WHO/UNICEF estimates. In 2022 the value was higher in Kuwait, by 40.3 percentage points, or 1.67 times that in Iraq.

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% of people · WHO/UNICEF

IraqKuwaitWorld

What the numbers say

Kuwait 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	Iraq	Kuwait	World
2022	59.7	100	72.9
2021	59.7	100	72.5
2020	59.7	100	72.3
2019	59.4	100	71.7
2018	58.9	100	71
2017	58.4	100	70.4
2016	57.9	100	69.7
2015	57.4	100	69.1
2014	57	100	68.4
2013	56.5	100	67.7
2012	56	100	67.1
2011	55.5	100	66.4
2010	55	100	65.9
2009	54.5	100	65.4
2008	54	100	64.9
2007	53.6	100	64.6
2006	53.1	100	64
2005	52.6	100	63.7
2004	52.1	100	63
2003	51.7	100	62.4
2002	51.2	100	61.8
2001	50.7	100	61.1
2000	50.2	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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Iraq vs Kuwait: Safe drinking water

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