Central African Republic's people using safely managed sanitation services, urban (% of urban population) was 23.43% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is down 5.05 percentage points from 28.48% in 2014.
Key figures
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 23.43% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 24.84% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 28.48% | 2014 |
| Highest | 36.83% | 2000 |
| Lowest | 23.43% | 2021 |
| Average since 2015 | 24.93% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 36.83% | 2000 |
What the numbers say
In 2024, Central African Republic's people using safely managed sanitation services, urban (% of urban population) did not change 0 percentage points on 2023 (from 23.43% to 23.43%).
Across the 23 yearly changes before that (2001 to 2023), the average change was −0.58 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.29 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 2.0 standard deviations above that average, so it was unusually large compared with the rest of the record.
On record, the biggest yearly fall was 0.79 percentage points in 2005. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.
From 2015 to 2024 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.52 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 91% of the movement over 10 observed years.
Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.
How it compares
In 2024, Central African Republic had the 106th highest value of the 121 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Central African Republic | 23.43% | 2024 |
| World | 65.83% | 2024 |
| Sub-Saharan Africa | 32.19% | 2024 |
| Low income | 35.57% | 2024 |
Closest to Central African Republic in the 2024 ranking
- Niger — 103rd of 121: 24.42%
- Costa Rica — 104th of 121: 24.33%
- Sierra Leone — 105th of 121: 24.32%
- Tonga — 107th of 121: 22.21%
- Benin — 108th of 121: 21.82%
- Suriname — 109th of 121: 20.69%
What this measures
The percentage of people using improved sanitation facilities that are not shared with other households and where excreta are safely disposed of in situ or transported and treated offsite. Improved sanitation facilities include flush/pour flush to piped sewer systems, septic tanks or pit latrines: ventilated improved pit latrines, composting toilets or pit latrines with slabs.
Limitations: There are three main ways to meet the criteria for having a safely managed sanitation service (People should use improved sanitation facilities that are not shared with other households, and the excreta produced should either be: treated and disposed of in situ; stored temporarily and then emptied, transported and treated off-site, or transported through a sewer with wastewater and then treated off-site). Many countries lack information on either wastewater treatment or the management of on-site sanitation. A national estimate is produced if information is available for the dominant type of sanitation system. If no information is available, it is assumed that 50 percent is safely managed.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
All 25 values
| Year | People using safely managed sanitation services, urban (% of urban population) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 23.43 |
| 2023 | 23.43 |
| 2022 | 23.43 |
| 2021 | 23.43 |
| 2020 | 24.13 |
| 2019 | 24.84 |
| 2018 | 25.56 |
| 2017 | 26.28 |
| 2016 | 27.01 |
| 2015 | 27.74 |
People using safely managed sanitation services, urban (% of urban population) in nearby economies
- Benin — 21.82% (2024)
- Burkina Faso — 31.38% (2024)
- Chad — 32.02% (2024)
- Comoros — 46.09% (2024)
- Congo, Dem. Rep. — 15.15% (2024)
- Côte d'Ivoire — 32.2% (2024)
- Eswatini — 40.86% (2024)
- Ethiopia — 18.94% (2024)
More health data for Central African Republic
- Population ages 00-04, female (% of female population) — 17.99% (2025)
- Population ages 00-04, male (% of male population) — 19.74% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female — 1.33 million (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, female (% of female population) — 46.47% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male — 1.35 million (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, male (% of male population) — 51.07% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14, total — 2.68 million (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 (% of total population) — 48.68% (2025)
- Population ages 05-09, female (% of female population)
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Questions people ask
- What is Central African Republic's people using safely managed sanitation services, urban (% of urban population)?
- 23.43% in 2024, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).
- How has it changed since 2000?
- It is down 13.4 percentage points from 36.83% in 2000. The highest value was 36.83% in 2000 and the lowest 23.43% in 2021.
- How does Central African Republic rank?
- 106th highest of 121 economies with data for 2024.
Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SH.STA.SMSS.UR.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene, World Health Organization (WHO), uri: washdata.org, note: Aggregate data by groups are computed based on the groupings for the World Bank fiscal year in which the data was released by the WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitorin… Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.
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