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* Non communicable diseases and weak [[Health care|healthcare]] systems.
===Low levels of access to water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH)===
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Access to water, sanitation and hygiene ([[WASH]]) services is at very low levels in many developing countries. In 2015 the [[World Health Organization]] (WHO) estimated that "1 in 3 people, or 2.4 billion, are still without sanitation facilities" while 663 million people still lack access to safe and clean drinking water.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/monitoring/jmp-2015-key-facts/en/|title=Key facts from JMP 2015 report|website=World Health Organization|language=en-GB|access-date=2017-11-17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/jmp-report/en/|title=WHO {{!}} Lack of sanitation for 2.4 billion people is undermining health improvements|website=www.who.int|access-date=2017-11-17}}</ref> The estimate in 2017 by [[Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation|JMP]] states that 4.5 billion people currently do not have [[Improved sanitation|safely managed sanitation]].<ref name="JMP2017" /> The majority of these people live in developing countries.
About 892 million people, or 12 percent of the global population, practiced [[open defecation]] instead of using [[toilets]] in 2016.<ref name="JMP2017">WHO and UNICEF (2017) [https://washdata.org/reports Progress on Drinking Water, Sanitation and Hygiene: 2017 Update and SDG Baselines]. Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), 2017</ref> Seventy-six percent (678 million) of the 892 million people practicing open defecation in the world live in just seven countries. [[India]] is the country with the highest number of people practicing open defecation, around 525 million people.<ref name="JMP2017" /> Further countries with a high number of people openly defecating are Nigeria (47 million), followed by Indonesia (31 million), Ethiopia (27 million), Pakistan (23 million),<ref name="PAK">{{cite web|url=https://www.unicef.org/pakistan/media_9678.html|title=UNICEF: Without toilets, childhood is even riskier due to malnutrition|publisher=[[UNICEF]]|accessdate=22 August 2017|quote=The fact remains that in Pakistan, 25 million people (or 13 percent of the population) practice open defecation.}}</ref> Niger (14 million) and [[Sudan]] (11 million).<ref name="JMP2017"/><ref name="JMP17"/>
[[Sustainable Development Goal 6]] is one of 17 [[Sustainable Development Goals]] established by the UN in 2015. It calls for clean water and [[sanitation]] for all people. This is particularly relevant for people in developing countries.
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