Editing Developing country (section)

===Water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH)===

{{Further|WASH|Water issues in developing countries}}

Access to water, sanitation and hygiene ([[WASH]]) services is at very low levels in many developing countries. In 2015 the [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) estimated that "1 in 3 people, or 2.4 billion, are still without sanitation facilities" while 663 million people still lack access to safe and clean drinking water.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/monitoring/jmp-2015-key-facts/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150703230219/http://who.int/water_sanitation_health/monitoring/jmp-2015-key-facts/en/|url-status=dead|archive-date=3 July 2015|title=Key facts from JMP 2015 report|website=World Health Organization|language=en-GB|access-date=17 November 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/jmp-report/en/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702063242/http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/jmp-report/en/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2 July 2015|title=WHO {{!}} Lack of sanitation for 2.4 billion people is undermining health improvements|website=www.who.int|access-date=17 November 2017}}</ref> The estimate in 2017 by [[Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation|JMP]] states that 4.5 billion people currently do not have safely managed sanitation.<ref name="JMP2017" /> The majority of these people live in developing countries.

About 892 million people or 12 percent of the global population, practiced [[open defecation]] instead of using toilets in 2016.<ref name="JMP2017">WHO and UNICEF (2017) [https://washdata.org/reports Progress on Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: 2017 Update and SDG Baselines] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725020452/https://washdata.org/reports |date=25 July 2019 }}. Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), 2017</ref> Seventy-six percent (678 million) of the 892 million people practicing open defecation in the world live in just seven countries.<ref name="JMP2017" /> Countries with a high number of people openly defecating are India (348 million), followed by Nigeria (38.1 million), Indonesia (26.4 million), Ethiopia (23.1 million), Pakistan (19.7 million), Niger (14.6 million) and Sudan (9.7 million).<ref name="WBSTATS">{{cite web|title=People practicing open defecation (% of population) – Indonesia, Nigeria, Niger, Ethiopia, Sudan, India, Pakistan|url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.ODFC.ZS?locations=ID-NG-NE-ET-SD-IN-PK|website=data.worldbank.org|publisher=[[The World Bank]]|access-date=15 October 2019|archive-date=15 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191015122909/https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.STA.ODFC.ZS%3Flocations%3DID-NG-NE-ET-SD-IN-PK|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Sustainable Development Goal 6]] is one of 17 [[Sustainable Development Goals]] established by the UN in 2015. It calls for clean water and sanitation for all people. This is particularly relevant for people in developing countries.