Kazakhstan vs United Kingdom: Safe drinking water

Safe drinking water: 89.4% in Kazakhstan in 2021 and 99.8% in United Kingdom in 2022, by WHO/UNICEF estimates. In 2021 the value was higher in United Kingdom, by 10.5 percentage points, or 1.12 times that in Kazakhstan.

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% of people · WHO/UNICEF

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What the numbers say

United Kingdom has been higher in every year both have figures for since 2000.
The world as a whole: 72.5% in 2021.

Every year

% of people · WHO/UNICEF

Year	Kazakhstan	United Kingdom	World
2022	–	99.8	72.9
2021	89.4	99.8	72.5
2020	89.3	99.8	72.3
2019	89.3	99.8	71.7
2018	89.3	99.9	71
2017	89.3	99.9	70.4
2016	87.7	99.9	69.7
2015	86.1	99.9	69.1
2014	84.5	99.9	68.4
2013	82.9	99.9	67.7
2012	81.3	99.9	67.1
2011	79.6	99.9	66.4
2010	77.9	100	65.9
2009	76.2	100	65.4
2008	74.6	100	64.9
2007	72.9	100	64.6
2006	71.3	100	64
2005	69.7	100	63.7
2004	68.1	100	63
2003	66.5	100	62.4
2002	64.9	100	61.8
2001	63.4	100	61.1
2000	63.1	100	60.8

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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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Kazakhstan vs United Kingdom: Safe drinking water

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