# Safe drinking water by nation — world ranking Safe drinking water ranked across 130 nations, highest to lowest. Hungary highest at 100.0% (2024). Each figure carries its publisher and observation year. Canonical: https://terralore.co/rankings/safe-drinking-water Updated: 2026-08-10 (the health domain's last refresh) Definition: Share of the population using an improved water source on their premises, available when needed and free of contamination. Unit: %. Ordered highest to lowest — a ranking of figures, not a grading of nations. Ties share a rank. Note: this table mixes vintages — each publisher carries a nation's latest available year, so observations run from 2021 to 2024. Every row shows its own. ## Ranking (130 nations) | Rank | Nation | Value | Observed | |---|---|---|---| | 1 | Hungary | 100.0% | 2024 | | 1 | Iceland | 100.0% | 2024 | | 1 | Kuwait | 100.0% | 2024 | | 1 | Liechtenstein | 100.0% | 2024 | | 1 | Monaco | 100.0% | 2024 | | 1 | New Zealand | 100.0% | 2024 | | 7 | San Marino | 100.0% | 2024 | | 8 | Netherlands | 100.0% | 2024 | | 9 | Denmark | 99.9% | 2024 | | 10 | Germany | 99.9% | 2024 | | 11 | Malta | 99.8% | 2024 | | 12 | United Kingdom | 99.8% | 2024 | | 13 | Sweden | 99.8% | 2024 | | 14 | Cyprus | 99.7% | 2024 | | 15 | France | 99.7% | 2024 | | 16 | Luxembourg | 99.7% | 2024 | | 17 | Finland | 99.6% | 2024 | | 18 | Slovenia | 99.6% | 2024 | | 19 | Slovakia | 99.6% | 2024 | | 20 | Belgium | 99.5% | 2024 | | 21 | Spain | 99.5% | 2024 | | 22 | South Korea | 99.3% | 2024 | | 23 | Norway | 99.1% | 2024 | | 24 | Estonia | 98.9% | 2024 | | 25 | Puerto Rico | 98.9% | 2024 | | 26 | Austria | 98.9% | 2024 | | 27 | Japan | 98.7% | 2024 | | 28 | United Arab Emirates | 98.6% | 2024 | | 29 | Czechia | 98.1% | 2024 | | 30 | Chile | 97.8% | 2024 | | 31 | United States | 97.6% | 2024 | | 32 | Latvia | 97.0% | 2024 | | 33 | Canada | 96.9% | 2024 | | 34 | New Caledonia | 96.9% | 2024 | | 35 | Italy | 96.8% | 2024 | | 36 | Lithuania | 96.7% | 2024 | | 37 | Switzerland | 96.7% | 2024 | | 38 | Greece | 96.7% | 2024 | | 39 | Bulgaria | 96.2% | 2024 | | 40 | Ireland | 96.1% | 2024 | | 41 | Qatar | 95.3% | 2024 | | 42 | Portugal | 95.2% | 2024 | | 43 | Turkmenistan | 94.9% | 2024 | | 44 | Malaysia | 94.7% | 2024 | | 45 | Iran | 94.4% | 2024 | | 46 | Belarus | 93.1% | 2024 | | 47 | Kazakhstan | 91.5% | 2024 | | 48 | Oman | 91.1% | 2024 | | 49 | Andorra | 90.6% | 2024 | | 50 | Jordan | 89.0% | 2024 | | 51 | Poland | 88.7% | 2024 | | 52 | Brazil | 88.6% | 2024 | | 53 | Ukraine | 87.9% | 2024 | | 54 | Croatia | 87.3% | 2024 | | 55 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 86.4% | 2024 | | 56 | Montenegro | 85.5% | 2024 | | 57 | Romania | 82.2% | 2024 | | 58 | Armenia | 82.1% | 2024 | | 59 | Uzbekistan | 81.9% | 2024 | | 60 | North Macedonia | 80.8% | 2024 | | 61 | Palestine | 80.6% | 2024 | | 62 | Costa Rica | 80.5% | 2024 | | 63 | Morocco | 80.0% | 2024 | | 64 | Egypt | 78.9% | 2024 | | 65 | India | 76.4% | 2024 | | 66 | Russia | 76.3% | 2024 | | 67 | Moldova | 75.8% | 2024 | | 68 | Serbia | 75.0% | 2024 | | 69 | Colombia | 74.3% | 2024 | | 70 | Kyrgyzstan | 73.9% | 2024 | | 71 | Albania | 70.8% | 2024 | | 72 | Georgia | 70.5% | 2024 | | 73 | Ecuador | 69.9% | 2024 | | 74 | Trinidad and Tobago | 69.4% | 2024 | | 75 | Algeria | 69.0% | 2024 | | 76 | South Africa | 68.0% | 2024 | | 77 | Guyana | 67.2% | 2024 | | 78 | North Korea | 66.6% | 2023 | | 79 | Bhutan | 65.6% | 2024 | | 80 | Honduras | 65.5% | 2024 | | 81 | Tajikistan | 65.1% | 2024 | | 82 | Tunisia | 65.0% | 2024 | | 83 | Seychelles | 64.7% | 2024 | | 84 | Paraguay | 64.4% | 2024 | | 85 | Botswana | 63.3% | 2024 | | 86 | Iraq | 59.8% | 2024 | | 87 | Myanmar | 59.7% | 2024 | | 88 | Bangladesh | 59.1% | 2024 | | 89 | Vietnam | 58.6% | 2024 | | 90 | Azerbaijan | 57.8% | 2024 | | 91 | Suriname | 55.8% | 2024 | | 92 | Peru | 49.4% | 2024 | | 93 | Guatemala | 48.8% | 2024 | | 94 | Philippines | 48.5% | 2024 | | 95 | Gambia | 48.2% | 2024 | | 96 | Lebanon | 47.7% | 2024 | | 97 | Sri Lanka | 46.9% | 2024 | | 98 | Congo | 45.9% | 2021 | | 99 | Dominican Republic | 45.3% | 2024 | | 100 | Pakistan | 45.0% | 2024 | | 101 | Mongolia | 43.4% | 2024 | | 102 | Mexico | 43.0% | 2024 | | 103 | Ghana | 42.9% | 2024 | | 104 | Fiji | 42.1% | 2024 | | 105 | Eswatini | 38.2% | 2024 | | 106 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 36.7% | 2024 | | 107 | Ivory Coast | 36.4% | 2024 | | 108 | Laos | 35.2% | 2024 | | 109 | Tanzania | 31.3% | 2024 | | 110 | Lesotho | 31.3% | 2024 | | 111 | Afghanistan | 30.6% | 2024 | | 112 | Indonesia | 30.5% | 2024 | | 113 | Cambodia | 30.0% | 2024 | | 114 | Nigeria | 29.9% | 2024 | | 115 | Mozambique | 27.5% | 2024 | | 116 | Senegal | 27.2% | 2024 | | 117 | Zimbabwe | 25.5% | 2024 | | 118 | Guinea-Bissau | 24.0% | 2024 | | 119 | Madagascar | 22.1% | 2024 | | 120 | Togo | 20.5% | 2024 | | 121 | Vanuatu | 19.2% | 2024 | | 122 | Malawi | 18.2% | 2024 | | 123 | Uganda | 18.1% | 2024 | | 124 | Benin | 17.7% | 2024 | | 125 | Nepal | 16.5% | 2024 | | 126 | Ethiopia | 13.5% | 2024 | | 127 | DR Congo | 11.9% | 2024 | | 128 | Sierra Leone | 10.9% | 2024 | | 129 | Chad | 6.3% | 2024 | | 130 | Central African Republic | 6.2% | 2024 | ## No data (56 nations) These nations publish no figure for this indicator in the sources below. Absence is a fact about the world's statistical apparatus, not a zero — they are not ranked. - Angola - Antarctica — Antarctica has no permanent population and no national government — it is administered under the Antarctic Treaty. No statistical agency compiles national indicators for it, so there is nothing here to report. - Argentina - Australia - Bahamas - Belize - Bolivia - Brunei - Burkina Faso - Burundi - Cameroon - Cape Verde - China - Comoros - Cuba - Djibouti - El Salvador - Equatorial Guinea - Eritrea - Falkland Islands — The Falkland Islands are a British Overseas Territory, administered by the United Kingdom; sovereignty is disputed by Argentina. They are not a separate reporting entity in World Bank datasets. - French Southern and Antarctic Lands — The French Southern and Antarctic Lands have no permanent civilian population. They are administered from Réunion as an overseas territory of France and are not a separate reporting entity in international datasets. - Gabon - Greenland - Guinea - Haiti - Jamaica - Kenya - Kosovo - Liberia - Libya - Mali - Mauritania - Mauritius - Namibia - Nicaragua - Niger - Northern Cyprus — Northern Cyprus is recognised as a state by Türkiye alone. It is not a member of the United Nations or the World Bank, and does not appear as a separate entity in the datasets these indicators are drawn from. - Panama - Papua New Guinea - Rwanda - Saudi Arabia - Solomon Islands - Somalia - Somaliland — Somaliland declared independence in 1991 and has not been recognised by the United Nations or any member state. Where its figures are collected at all, they are reported within Somalia's. - South Sudan - Sudan - Syria - Taiwan — Taiwan is not a member of the United Nations, and is excluded from the World Bank and UN series that supply most of this dossier. Its own statistical agencies publish extensively. - Thailand - Timor-Leste - Türkiye - Uruguay - Vatican City — Vatican City has a resident population of a few hundred and does not compile the economic and social series these indicators are drawn from. - Venezuela - Yemen - Zambia ## Sources - Global Health Observatory (WHO, via World Bank WDI) — WHO / World Bank · CC BY 4.0 · accessed 2026-08-10 · https://www.who.int/data/gho Citation template: Terralore, "Safe drinking water by nation — world ranking", terralore.co/rankings/safe-drinking-water, retrieved .