Improved water source, rural (% of rural population with access) - Disease prevention - Health - World Development Indicators

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Access to an improved water source refers to the percentage of the population with reasonable access to an adequate amount of water from an improved source, such as a household connection, public standpipe, borehole, protected well or spring, and rainwater collection. Unimproved sources include vendors, tanker trucks, and unprotected wells and springs. Reasonable access is defined as the availability of at least 20 liters a person a day from a source within one kilometer of the dwelling.

Rank	Country	Value
Improved water source, rural (% of rural population with access) - Disease prevention - Health - World Development Indicators (2006)
1	Aruba	100
2	Andorra	100
3	Lebanon	100
4	Slovakia	100
5	Denmark	100
6	United Arab Emirates	100
7	Qatar	100
8	Japan	100
9	Australia	100
10	Austria	100
11	Barbados	100
12	Guam	100
13	Israel	100
14	French Polynesia	100
15	Portugal	100
16	Hungary	100
17	Iceland	100
18	Sweden	100
19	Czech Republic	100
20	South Korea	100
21	United Kingdom	100
22	North Korea	100
23	Tonga	100
24	Malta	100
25	Uruguay	100
26	Switzerland	100
27	Finland	100
28	Luxembourg	100
29	Mauritius	100
30	Spain	100
31	Norway	100
32	France	100
33	Netherlands	100
34	Cyprus	100
35	Germany	100
36	Euro area	99.93
37	Belarus	99
38	Macedonia	99
39	Canada	99
40	Estonia	99
41	St. Kitts and Nevis	99
42	Greece	99
43	High income: OECD	98.18
44	High income	98.06
45	Egypt	98
46	Serbia	98
47	Bosnia and Herzegovina	98
48	Croatia	98
49	St. Lucia	98
50	Albania	97
51	Georgia	97
52	Bulgaria	97
53	Thailand	97
54	Northern Mariana Islands	97
55	Ukraine	97
56	Armenia	96
57	Latvia	96
58	Malaysia	96
59	Costa Rica	96
60	Montenegro	96
61	Turkey	95
62	Guatemala	94
63	Palau	94
64	Micronesia	94
65	United States	94
66	Trinidad and Tobago	93
67	Kazakhstan	91
68	Jordan	91
69	Ecuador	91
70	Guyana	91
71	Dominican Republic	91
72	Namibia	90
73	Botswana	90
74	Vietnam	90
75	Nepal	88
76	Philippines	88
77	Jamaica	88
78	Russia	88
79	West Bank and Gaza	88
80	Europe & Central Asia	87.81
81	Pakistan	87
82	Samoa	87
83	India	86
84	Moldova	85
85	Mexico	85
86	Tunisia	84
87	South Asia	83.80
88	Syria	83
89	Kyrgyzstan	83
90	Sao Tome and Principe	83
91	Upper middle income	82.21
92	Uzbekistan	82
93	South Africa	82
94	Middle East & North Africa	81.17
95	Comoros	81
96	Gambia	81
97	Algeria	81
98	Panama	81
99	China	81
100	East Asia & Pacific	80.95
101	Middle income	80.80
102	Lower middle income	80.66
103	Burma	80
104	Argentina	80
105	Bhutan	79
106	Sri Lanka	79
107	Suriname	79
108	Cuba	78
109	Bangladesh	78
110	Colombia	77
111	Low & middle income	76.11
112	Romania	76
113	Maldives	76
114	Lesotho	74
115	Honduras	74
116	Latin America & Caribbean	73.12
117	Zimbabwe	72
118	Malawi	72
119	Chile	72
120	Indonesia	71
121	Ghana	71
122	Burundi	70
123	Bolivia	69
124	El Salvador	68
125	Burkina Faso	66
126	Ivory Coast	66
127	Senegal	65
128	Solomon Islands	65
129	Yemen	65
130	Sudan	64
131	Nicaragua	63
132	Peru	63
133	Rwanda	61
134	Cambodia	61
135	Uganda	60
136	Low income	59.69
137	Guinea	59
138	Azerbaijan	59
139	Morocco	58
140	Brazil	58
141	Tajikistan	58
142	Benin	57
143	Eritrea	57
144	Iraq	56
145	Timor-Leste	56
146	Least developed countries: UN classification	55.07
147	Mauritania	54
148	Djibouti	54
149	Laos	53
150	Kiribati	53
151	Liberia	52
152	Paraguay	52
153	Swaziland	51
154	Fiji	51
155	Central African Republic	51
156	Haiti	51
157	Kenya	49
158	Mongolia	48
159	Mali	48
160	Guinea-Bissau	47
161	Gabon	47
162	Cameroon	47
163	Tanzania	46
164	Sub-Saharan Africa	45.57
165	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	45.21
166	Equatorial Guinea	42
167	Zambia	41
168	Chad	40
169	Togo	40
170	Angola	39
171	Madagascar	36
172	Republic of the Congo	35
173	Papua New Guinea	32
174	Niger	32
175	Sierra Leone	32
176	Ethiopia	31
177	Nigeria	30
178	Democratic Republic of the Congo	29
179	Mozambique	26
180	Afghanistan	17
181	Somalia	10

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