Ghana: 7 in 10 are online, but only 2 in 10 have toilet waste that is safely treated
share of people, 2024
72% are online. By the strict WHO/UNICEF bar, 19% have a toilet whose waste is safely treated or disposed of. The rest are not necessarily without a toilet: toilets whose waste goes untreated do not count.
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The internet: people online in the last three months on any device (ITU), the lowest bar. Safely managed sanitation is the strict WHO/UNICEF bar: a toilet not shared with other households whose waste is safely disposed of on site or removed and treated; safely managed water: a clean source at home, available when needed.
Blue is the card’s first number, orange the second; they share one scale. The ring marks where the lines crossed; the gap after it is shaded. The large numbers are the latest year both lines share.
- Internet users % of population
0.2 (2000) → 72.2 (2024)
- People using safely managed sanitation services % of population
3.7 (2000) → 18.8 (2024)
People using safely managed sanitation services (% of population)
Only years where both series are published; gaps are not filled. An overtaking counts if the new leader was behind at the start and ahead in no more than a fifth of the years before it, and it leads in the latest shared year and in at least two shared years in a row. A short dip of up to two years does not end a lead and is named; if the leader was ahead once before, that year is named too. Size thresholds pick a story and do not show that one causes the other.
The bars differ: going online once is enough for the internet, while sanitation and water are counted at the top rung. Lacking such a service does not mean having no toilet or no water at all. Both are shares of all people.
A question for this picture
Why was it easier to bring the internet than sewage treatment?