Palau
Safe drinking water in Palau
Safe drinking water in Palau: 65.4% in 2000 and 90.4% in 2022, by WHO/UNICEF estimates.
- Latest, 2022
- 90.4%
- Since 2000
- +25 percentage points
- Rank, 2022
- 59 of 135
- counting from the highest
- World, 2022
- 72.9%
% of people · WHO/UNICEF
Every year
% of people · WHO/UNICEF
| Year | Palau | World |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 90.4 | 72.9 |
| 2021 | 89.2 | 72.5 |
| 2020 | 88 | 72.3 |
| 2019 | 86.7 | 71.7 |
| 2018 | 85.5 | 71 |
| 2017 | 84.3 | 70.4 |
| 2016 | 83.1 | 69.7 |
| 2015 | 81.8 | 69.1 |
| 2014 | 80.6 | 68.4 |
| 2013 | 79.4 | 67.7 |
| 2012 | 78.2 | 67.1 |
| 2011 | 77 | 66.4 |
| 2010 | 75.9 | 65.9 |
| 2009 | 74.7 | 65.4 |
| 2008 | 73.6 | 64.9 |
| 2007 | 72.4 | 64.6 |
| 2006 | 71.3 | 64 |
| 2005 | 70.2 | 63.7 |
| 2004 | 69.1 | 63 |
| 2003 | 68.1 | 62.4 |
| 2002 | 67.2 | 61.8 |
| 2001 | 66.3 | 61.1 |
| 2000 | 65.4 | 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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