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Number of people without access to an improved water source, 2020

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World
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Source: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme (JMP) for Water Supply and Sanitation

Note: An improved drinking water source includes piped water on premises (piped household water connection located inside the user’s dwelling, plot or yard), and other improved drinking water sources
(public taps or standpipes, tube wells or boreholes, protected dug wells, protected springs, and rainwater collection).

2000
2020

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