In 1980, no more than twenty-four per cent of the world’s population had access to proper sanitation facilities. By 2015, this had increased to sixty-eight per cent. Nearly a third of the current global population gained access in the last twenty-five years – 2.1 billion people. Eighty-two per cent of the urban population now have access, compared to fifty-one per cent of the rural population. A quarter of those in rural areas still practice open defecation, though this has been reduced from thirty-eight per cent in 1990. Countries such as India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Vietnam have reduced
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