2.3 Billion of 7 Billion in World Still Lack Basic Toilet
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About 2.3 billion of the 7 billion people on Earth lack a basic toilet, a slight improvement from last year, data from Unicef and the World Health Organization show.
The number of people without toilets was down 8 percent as the number lacking safe water fell to 650 million from 748 million in 2014, according to the joint monitoring program update issued Tuesday. Much of the improvements are due to progress in India and China. But “very little has changed for the world’s poorest people,” the agencies said.