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

^aFiltering 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.