Open defecation is the human practice of defecating outside ("in the open") rather than into a toilet. People may choose fields, bushes, forests, ditches, streets, canals, or other open spaces for defecation. They do so either because they do not have a toilet readily accessible or due to archaic traditional cultural practices. [3]

2014年6月17日 · A new World Health Organisation (WHO) report says more than half a billion people in India still "continue to defecate in gutters, behind bushes or in open water bodies, with no dignity or...

2024年11月15日 · Cambodia, Ethiopia, Nepal and India saw the largest fall in outdoor defecation since the year 2000, reducing it from affecting around 70 to 85 percent of the population to seven to 20 percent.

Today open defecation is on the decline worldwide, but nearly 950 million people still routinely practice it. Some 569 million of them live in India. Walk along its train tracks or rural roads,...

2022年12月18日 · Open defecation is the human practice of defecating outside (in an open environment) rather than into a toilet. People may choose fields, bushes, forests, ditches, streets, canals or other open space for defecation. This practice is common where sanitation infrastructure and services are not available. Defecating in the open is a very ancient ...

Open defecation is the emptying of bowels in the open without the use of properly designed structures built for the handling of human waste, such as toilets. Open defecation is particularly associated with rural and poverty-stricken regions of the …

2019年6月18日 · As recently as 2015, a chronic lack of toilets was driving nearly a billion people to defecate outdoors, resulting in widespread disease and millions of deaths. That year, the UN called for an...

The percentage of the population practising open defecation is defined as the proportion of the population who usually don’t use any kind of toilet facility for defecation. Those using unimproved sanitation facilities like pit latrines without slab, open pit, or hanging latrines, are not counted as practising open defecation.

2024年12月10日 · Open defecation is the empting of bowels in the open without the use of properly designed structures built for handling of human waste such as toilets. Open defecation is particularly associated with rural and poverty stricken regions of the world, especially Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.

2019年11月19日 · Open defecation is the practice of people defecating outside, such as in street gutters, behind bushes or into open bodies of water. Between 2000 and 2017, the world nearly halved the number of people practicing open defecation from 1.3 billion to around 670 million (9% of the global population).