Sub-Saharan Africa has seen a 5% progress in terms of percentage of population served with improved sanitation facilities between 1990 and 2004. Some 107 million more people gained access to sanitation, most of them in urban areas (+ 66 million).

An important demographic increase (+ 218 million) contributed to the lack of improvement of the percentage of people served.

		Click to see a graph showing the sanitation coverage changes in rural and urban settings between 1990 and 2004.

From here, you may wish to find out what the situation is at country level. By selecting one of the countries in the pop up menu below you will open an Adobe Acrobat file which provides detailed information and graphs.

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