Health · Solomon Islands
Yearly data from 2000 to 2024, from the World Bank.
Solomon Islands's people practicing open defecation, urban (% of urban population) was 7.71% in 2024, the latest year in the World Bank's World Development Indicators. That is up 0.36 percentage points from 7.35% in 2014.
| Value | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| Latest | 7.71% | 2024 |
| Five years earlier | 7.61% | 2019 |
| Ten years earlier | 7.35% | 2014 |
| Highest | 7.71% | 2021 |
| Lowest | 6.83% | 2000 |
| Average since 2015 | 7.6% | 2015–2024 |
| First recorded | 6.83% | 2000 |
Over five years it is up 0.1 percentage points from 7.61% in 2019. Since 2000 it is up 0.88 percentage points from 6.83% in 2000.
In 2024, Solomon Islands' people practicing open defecation, urban (% of urban population) did not change 0 percentage points on 2023 (from 7.71% to 7.71%).
Across the 23 yearly changes before that (2001 to 2023), the average change was +0.04 percentage points and a typical year strayed about 0.02 percentage points from that (the standard deviation). This year's change was 1.6 standard deviations below that average, so it was larger than a typical year, though not out of the range seen before.
On record, the biggest yearly rise was 0.05 percentage points in 2010. 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 upward, about 0.04 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.
In 2024, Solomon Islands had the 12th highest value of the 168 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| Solomon Islands | 7.71% | 2024 |
| World | 0.69% | 2024 |
| East Asia & Pacific | 0.22% | 2024 |
| Lower middle income | 1.58% | 2024 |
People practicing open defecation refers to the percentage of the population defecating in the open, such as in fields, forest, bushes, open bodies of water, on beaches, in other open spaces or disposed of with solid waste.
Limitations: National, regional and income group estimates are made when data are available for at least 50 percent of the population.
Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a weighted average.
| Year | People practicing open defecation, urban (% of urban population) |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 7.71 |
| 2023 | 7.71 |
| 2022 | 7.71 |
| 2021 | 7.71 |
| 2020 | 7.66 |
| 2019 | 7.61 |
| 2018 | 7.56 |
| 2017 | 7.51 |
| 2016 | 7.45 |
| 2015 | 7.4 |
| 2014 | 7.35 |
| 2013 | 7.3 |
| 2012 | 7.24 |
| 2011 | 7.19 |
| 2010 | 7.14 |
| 2009 | 7.09 |
| 2008 | 7.04 |
| 2007 | 6.98 |
| 2006 | 6.93 |
| 2005 | 6.88 |
| 2004 | 6.83 |
| 2003 | 6.83 |
| 2002 | 6.83 |
| 2001 | 6.83 |
| 2000 | 6.83 |
Every indicator for Solomon Islands is on the Solomon Islands data page.
World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SH.STA.ODFC.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, publisher: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (washdata.org), date accessed: 2025-09-30, date published: 2025-08… 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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