← on nowLGR-059 · v0.1.0 · model · estimate How many people are killed by dirty water and no toilet each year?
humans · Homo sapiens
killed by dirty water and no toilet
1.4 million
a year
0.044
a second
3,833
a day
of them, children under five
395,000
a year
0.013
a second
1,081
a day
method WHO burden of disease from inadequate WASH 2023 (1.4M); child share from the same.
- about 2 billion people drink water contaminated with faeces. about 3.5 billion have no safely managed toilet.source: WHO/UNICEF JMP 2023; WHO burden of disease from WASH 2023
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how this number is built
- method
- WHO burden of disease from inadequate WASH 2023 (1.4M); child share from the same.
- range
- 1.2–1.6 million/yr
- confidence
- estimate
- weakness
- attributable-fraction estimate; diarrhoeal deaths are also falling fast, so this dates.
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