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. 2019 Jun;222(5):765–777. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2019.05.004

Table 3.

Distribution of the population to exposure levels of drinking water, by region, for 2016.

Region Percentage of population using
Total
piped water on premises
basic drinking water, not piped on premises
surface, unimproved or limited water
not filtered
or boileda
filtered or boiled not filtered
or boiled
filtered or boiled not filtered
or boiled
filtered or boiled
Sub-Saharan Africa, LMICs 25.5 3.1 29.6 2.0 35.8 4.0 100
America, LMICs 58.3 32.3 4.6 1.1 2.9 0.8 100
Eastern Mediterranean, LMICs 53.8 4.8 26.0 0.7 13.7 0.9 100
Europe, LMICs 55.6 29.3 6.9 4.1 2.5 1.7 100
South-East Asia, LMICs 24.9 12.7 38.6 13.0 7.2 3.5 100
Western Pacific, LMICs 28.5 50.7 8.8 8.3 1.6 2.1 100
Total LMICs 34.1 23.5 22.6 7.0 10.2 2.6 100
a

Filtering or boiling means point-of-use water treatment at household-level. The total may not equal the sum of numbers displayed in the rows due to rounding. LMICs: low- and middle-income countries.