Safe drinking water in Puerto Rico

Safe drinking water in Puerto Rico: 75.1% in 2000 and 99.9% in 2022, by WHO/UNICEF estimates.

Latest, 2022: 99.9%
Since 2000: +24.7 percentage points
Rank, 2022: 15 of 135; counting from the highest
World, 2022: 72.9%

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% of people · WHO/UNICEF

Estimates, WHO/UNICEFWorld

What the numbers say

The highest was 99.9% in 2019, the lowest 75.1% in 2000.

Every year

% of people · WHO/UNICEF

Year	Puerto Rico	World
2022	99.9	72.9
2021	99.9	72.5
2020	99.9	72.3
2019	99.9	71.7
2018	99.7	71
2017	99.5	70.4
2016	98.6	69.7
2015	95.7	69.1
2014	92.9	68.4
2013	90.1	67.7
2012	87.3	67.1
2011	84.4	66.4
2010	81.6	65.9
2009	78.8	65.4
2008	76	64.9
2007	75.9	64.6
2006	75.8	64
2005	75.7	63.7
2004	75.6	63
2003	75.5	62.4
2002	75.4	61.8
2001	75.3	61.1
2000	75.1	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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