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Basic drinking-water access in Malaysia

The percentage of people using at least basic water services. This indicator encompasses both people using basic water services as well as those using safely managed water services. Basic drinking water services is defined as drinking water from an improved source, provided collection time is not more than 30 minutes for a round trip. Improved water sources include piped water, boreholes or tubewells, protected dug wells, protected springs, and packaged or delivered water.

97.94%%
2024Observation year

+0.05 pp from 2023

Malaysia
Basic drinking-water access in Malaysia, 2000–2025%. Underlying figures are available in the data table.9696979898200020052010201520202025

% · World Bank World Development Indicators · Missing observations remain gaps.

Underlying data

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Basic drinking-water access · Malaysia · %
YearValueStatus & source note
2025Not availablemissing
202497.9424657751403present
202397.8919385183286present
202297.8397514976645present
202197.7858740262041present
202097.7301935332944present
201997.6726796234952present
201897.6132438171196present
201797.5518244346184present
201697.4883578339003present
201597.4227111540385present
201497.3553157635016present
201397.2860389333655present
201297.2149965525313present
201197.1420179422796present
201097.0660732321152present
200996.981531661434present
200896.894523797627present
200796.8049040699595present
200696.7127740822189present
200596.6181133763505present
200496.5209270315964present
200396.421011641098present
200296.3185542508289present
200196.2135218448603present
200096.1058225790824present

Definition & method

Methodology: The data sources for drinking water services are household surveys such as Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS), administrative data, census, and other datasets such as compilations by international or regional initiatives (e.g., IB-NET) or studies conducted by research institutions. Based on these national datasets, JMP estimates the proportion of the people accessing different levels of services by using linear regression. You can find the details of estimates including the rules on interpolation, extrapolation and extension in the JMP’s methodology report (https://washdata.org/reports/jmp-2017-methodology). Statistical concept(s): The JMP classifies the water service levels into five tiers, ranging from the most to the least favorable: safely managed, basic, limited, unimproved, and surface water (Reference: https://washdata.org/monitoring/drinking-water). This indicator encompasses both people using basic water services as well as those using safely managed water services.

The percentage of people using at least basic water services. This indicator encompasses both people using basic water services as well as those using safely managed water services. Basic drinking water services is defined as drinking water from an improved source, provided collection time is not more than 30 minutes for a round trip. Improved water sources include piped water, boreholes or tubewells, protected dug wells, protected springs, and packaged or delivered water.

What to keep in mind

  • At least basic means an improved source with a collection round trip of at most 30 minutes. This differs from safely managed drinking water and does not by itself establish water safety.
  • Annual 2000–2025 selection. Source estimates and historical values may be revised; unavailable values remain missing.