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  Southern Asia: sanitation data
 

Southern Asia has seen good progress in terms of percentage of population served: the coverage increasing by some 18%. This amounts to 332 million more people that have gained access to improved sanitation between 1990 and 2004.

Progress has been made mainly in rural settings with 19% more people that have gained access to improved sanitation (+ 212 million). Urban areas have seen a 9% increase (+ 120 million).

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

 
 
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1990 - Population (thousands)
2004 - Population (thousands)
Total served unserved % served % house connect. Total served unserved % served % house connect.
sample size (percentage in parenthesis)
sample size (percentage in parenthesis)
Urban 311'840 168'851 142'989 (100)     54 (100)     28 > 459'235 288'771 170'464 (90)     63 (100)     24
Rural 863'358 72'042 791'316 (100)       8 (100)       2 > 1'068'873 284'296 784'577 (98)     27 (100)       2
Total 1'175'198 240'893 934'305 (100)     20 (100)       9 > 1'528'108 573'067 955'041 (95)     38 (100)       9
 
A data sheet with table, graph, map and detailed comments will be made available in the near future
 

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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