That means weвЂ™ve seen an increase of four percentage points over five years. In 2015 (at the start of the SDGs) only 70% of the global population had safe drinking water. Most live in Sub-Saharan Africa.ДЄre we making progress? The world has made progress in the last five years. We see that in countries at the lowest incomes, less than one-third of the population have safe water. In the chart we see the breakdown of drinking water access globally, and across regions and income groups. One-in-four people do not have access to safe drinking water. Where are we today? In 2020, almost three-quarters (74%) of the world population had access to a safely managed water source. SDG Target 6.1 is to : вЂњachieve universal and equitable access to safe and affordable drinking water for allвЂќ by 2030. There is a strong negative relationship: death rates decline as countries get richer. We see this relationship clearly when we plot death rates versus income, as shown here. The issue of unsafe sanitation is therefore one which is largely limited to low and lower-middle income countries. ThatвЂ™s a greater than 1000-fold difference. Rates here are often greater than 50 deaths per 100,000 вЂ“ in the Central African Republic and Chad this was over 100 per 100,000.Д¬ompare this with death rates across high-income countries: across Europe rates are below 0.1 deaths per 100,000. What becomes clear is the large differences in death rates between countries: rates are high in lower-income countries, particularly across Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.

Death rates measure the number of deaths per 100,000 people in a given country or region. In this map we see death rates from unsafe water sources across the world.

In contrast to the share of deaths that we studied before, death rates are not influenced by how other causes or risk factors for death are changing. To put this into context: this was three times the number of homicides in 2017 and equal to the number that died in road accidents globally.Дeath rates from unsafe water sources give us an accurate comparison of differences in its mortality impacts between countries and over time. In the chart we see that it ranks as a very important risk factor for death globally.ДЄccording to the Global Burden of Disease study 1.2 people died prematurely in 2017 as a result of unsafe water. 2 It also exacerbates malnutrition, and in particular, childhood stunting. Lack of access to safe water sources is a leading risk factor for infectious diseases, including cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid and polio. This chart is shown for the global total, but can be explored for any country or region using the вЂњchange countryвЂќ toggle. 1 These estimates of the annual number of deaths attributed to a wide range of risk factors are shown here.

The Global Burden of Disease is a major global study on the causes and risk factors for death and disease published in the medical journal The Lancet. Unsafe water is one of the worldвЂ™s largest health and environmental problems вЂ“ particularly for the poorest in the world.

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