Table 6.

Regional and total estimates of the percentage of the population from low- and middle-income countries living in communities with high sanitation coverage.

	population (percentage (95% CI)) living in communities with the given level of basic sanitation coverage
Region	>75%	>95%
African Region	13.3% (11.1%, 16.0%)	6.2% (4.4%, 8.8%)
Region of the Americas	75.8% (73.7%, 77.7%)	46.1% (43.9%, 48.2%)
Eastern Mediterranean Region	54.8% (51.9%, 57.6%)	35.7% (32.1%, 39.6%)
European Region	93.3% (91.3%, 94.9%)	79.6% (77.4%, 81.6%)
South-East Asia Region	31.9% (30.9%, 32.9%)	12.7% (9.3%, 17.1%)
Western Pacific Region	63.2% (26.3%, 89.2%)	30.6% (5.8%, 75.8%)
Total	45.3% (34.7%, 56.4%)	23.7% (14.9%, 35.4%)

CI: confidence interval, results apply to low- and middle income countries, regions according to WHO regional groupings (WHO, 2018b), basic sanitation includes improved sanitation facilities that are not shared between two or more households (WHO and UNICEF, 2017).