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Zimbabwe People practicing open defecation, rural (% of rural population)
What is Zimbabwe's people practicing open defecation, rural (% of rural population)? As of 2023, it's 20% of rural population, down from 31.7% of rural population in 2014.
Author: Wantstats Research TeamSource: World Bank and Wantstats Repository
| Label | People practicing open defecation, rural (% of rural population) |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 31.6723% of rural population |
| 2015 | 30.3806% of rural population |
| 2016 | 29.0889% of rural population |
| 2017 | 27.7972% of rural population |
| 2018 | 26.5054% of rural population |
| 2019 | 25.2137% of rural population |
| 2020 | 23.922% of rural population |
| 2021 | 22.6303% of rural population |
| 2022 | 21.3386% of rural population |
| 2023 | 20.0469% of rural population |
Data Source: World Bank and Wantstats Repository
Zimbabwe People practicing open defecation, rural (% of rural population): Key Points
- In 2023, Zimbabwe's people practicing open defecation, rural stood at 20.05 % of rural population — down from 31.67 % of rural population in 2014, a fall of roughly 37%.
- 2015-2023: Moves down every year without exception. Nothing pulls it back up.
- 2018: The standout year. Value drops from 27.80 to 26.51 % of rural population (~5%) — nothing else in the series moves this fast.
- 2023: Finishes at 20.05 % of rural population, down 36.7% from where it started in 2014.
Making Sense Of The Steady Decline
10 years without a single reversal is not an accident. Something durable is driving this — a rollout, a policy shift, a slow demographic change — and it hasn't stopped yet.
On its own, this line shows movement, not meaning. Whether Zimbabwe's people practicing open defecation, rural trend here is a success or a warning sign depends on context this single chart doesn't carry — comparable countries, policy changes, or a longer time horizon.
Source here is a national/international statistics body, not a live measurement — most time series like this are interpolated or modeled between actual survey years. Treat the trend as the real signal, individual years as approximate.
A rural-specific chart like this one is most useful side by side with its urban counterpart — the divergence between them is often the real finding.
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