I just stumbled upon this interesting statistic.. It's one of those things that make you feel "good" with the shit other people have to put up with in their lives. In a literal kind of way.
Turns out that as we speak about 60 percent of the world's population, that's about 4.5 billion people, either have no toilet at home or one that doesn't safely manage human waste. Meanwhile, 900 million people still practice open defecation.
Yeah, I'd expect those numbers to be high..But not that high. It's 2024, we routinely send robots and stuff to Mars and yet the majority of the human population doesn't have access to a proper toilet. 😅
After doing some digging, it seems like Niger is the country with the least access to sanitation services worldwide. In 2022, approximately 65 percent of Nigerien population still defecated in the open. Damn...that's a lot of poop 💩
As for the silver medal, itgoes to Chad with a 63 % percent. There's also Eritrea with a similar number.
The statistics from source to source but they are always...shitty for these three countries 😅
I guess the moral of the story is..Count your blessings next time you sit on your porcelain throne? Most people don't have the privilege to do that daily...if ever!