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Populations of 175 countries requiring faecal sludge emptying services.

Usage

fsmglobal

Format

A tibble with 700 rows and 9 variables:

iso3c

International Standards Organization (ISO) 3-digit alphabetic codes.

country

Name of the country.

emptying_method

Type of faecal sludge emptying method for corresponding population in population_emptying_method.

population_2017

Total country population in 2017.

population_emptying_method

Total population requiring faecal sludge emptying services for type of method identified in emptying_method.

count_pits_septics

Total number of pit latrines and septic tanks in country.

emptying_demand

Emptying demand as the proportion of population_emptying_method / population_2017.

urban_demand

Proportion of urban population.

rural_demand

Proportion of rural population.

Source

Originally published in: Greene, N., Hennessy, S., Rogers, T. W., Tsai, J., & de los Reyes III, F. L. (2021). The role of emptying services in provision of safely managed sanitation: A classification and quantification of the needs of LMICs. Journal of Environmental Management, 290, 112612. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2021.112612