According a latest report of WHO/UNICEF Indians use open place for defecation, the highest in the world. This is something that should bring shame to Indians.
Some of the key findings of the report:
- Around 638 million people do not have access to toilets in India followed by Indonesia (58m), China (50m), Ethiopia (49m), Pakistan (48m), Nigeria (33m) and Sudan (17m).
- 18 percent of urban India still defecates in open while the percentage of rural India is as high as 69 percent.
- It also underlines that open defecation leads to deadly diarrhoea and other intestinal diseases which kills hundreds of thousands of people worldwide every year.
Source: http://www.unicef.org/media/files/JMP-2010Final.pdf