Safe drinking water in Israel

Safe drinking water in Israel: 99.8% in 2000 and 99.5% in 2022, by WHO/UNICEF estimates.

Latest, 2022: 99.5%
Since 2000: −0.3 percentage points
Rank, 2022: 26 of 135; counting from the highest
World, 2022: 72.9%

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% of people · WHO/UNICEF

Estimates, WHO/UNICEFWorld

Every year

% of people · WHO/UNICEF

Year	Israel	World
2022	99.5	72.9
2021	99.5	72.5
2020	99.5	72.3
2019	99.5	71.7
2018	99.5	71
2017	99.5	70.4
2016	99.6	69.7
2015	99.6	69.1
2014	99.6	68.4
2013	99.6	67.7
2012	99.6	67.1
2011	99.6	66.4
2010	99.6	65.9
2009	99.7	65.4
2008	99.7	64.9
2007	99.7	64.6
2006	99.7	64
2005	99.7	63.7
2004	99.7	63
2003	99.7	62.4
2002	99.8	61.8
2001	99.8	61.1
2000	99.8	60.8

Good to know

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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