Indian states and union territories ranked by prevalence of open defecation
This is a list of Indian states and territories ranked by their households with open defecation free in both urban and rural areas. Figures are from ministry of drinking water and sanitation.[1] Below table shows ODF( Open Defecation Free), households with Toilets as percentage of total population.
More Indians living in villages owned a latrine in 2018 than four years ago, yet 44% of them still defecate in the open, according to a survey covering Rajasthan, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh that was released on January 4, 2019. These four states together contain two-fifths of India's rural population and reported high open defecation rates, over 68% in 2016.
As of February, 2018, 11 states/UTs namely Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Gujarat, Chandigarh, Daman and Diu, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Meghalaya had been declared ODF.
Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh, two states that had declared themselves open defecation-free, are yet to achieve that goal. In Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh 53% and 25% respectively were estimated to be defecating in the open.
There has been 34-percentage-point increase in latrine ownership in north India from 37% in 2014 to 71% in 2018. The highest difference was reported in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan--47 percentage points.
ODF(Open Defecation Free)
| Rank | India/State/Union Territory | ODF in Rural
areas(%) |
ODF in Urban
areas (%) |
Overall ODF (%) | ODF Free |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A & N Islands | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 2 | Andhra Pradesh | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 3 | Arunachal Pradesh | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 4 | Assam | 98.00 | 99.00 | 98.17 | NO |
| 5 | Bihar | 21.93 | 90.00 | 71.00 | NO |
| 6 | Chandigarh | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 7 | Chhattisgarh | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 8 | D & N Haveli | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 9 | Daman and Diu | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 10 | Goa | 5.87 | 100.0 | 76.20 | NO |
| 11 | Gujarat | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 12 | Haryana | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 13 | Himachal Pradesh | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 14 | Jammu and Kashmir | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 15 | Jharkhand | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 16 | Karnataka | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 17 | Kerala | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 18 | Laskhadweep | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 19 | Madhya Pradesh | 94.43 | 100.0 | 99.91 | NO |
| 20 | Maharashtra | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 21 | Manipur | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 22 | Meghalaya | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 23 | Mizoram | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 24 | Nagaland | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 25 | Odisha | 99.60 | 92.00 | 81.04 | NO |
| 26 | Puducherry | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 27 | Punjab | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 28 | Rajasthan | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 29 | Sikkim | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 30 | Tamil Nadu | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 31 | Telangana | 52.60 | 97.00 | 89.88 | NO |
| 32 | Tripura | 89.00 | 90.00 | 89.3 | NO |
| 33 | Uttar Pradesh | 100.00 | 100.00 | 100.00 | YES |
| 34 | Uttarakhand | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | YES |
| 35 | West Bengal | 95.00 | 99.00 | 98.20 | NO |
| INDIA | 93.00 | ||||