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Basic drinking-water access in Sweden

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.

99.76%%
2024Observation year

+0.00 pp from 2023

Sweden
Basic drinking-water access in Sweden, 2000–2025%. Underlying figures are available in the data table.99100100100100200020052010201520202025

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

Underlying data

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Basic drinking-water access · Sweden · %
YearValueStatus & source note
2025Not availablemissing
202499.7607966673045present
202399.7602354276088present
202299.7499137536867present
202199.7393684296399present
202099.7286050632105present
201999.7175968808231present
201899.7063476379423present
201799.694829304649present
201699.6830482298688present
201599.6710064082341present
201499.6586774345315present
201399.6460882913132present
201299.6332110988659present
201199.6200368706399present
201099.6072194103312present
200999.5949006103398present
200899.5824390950452present
200799.5698405523295present
200699.5571126332243present
200599.5447070775688present
200499.5327102571296present
200399.5206514635942present
200299.5085347124105present
200199.4963792681382present
200099.4843695619829present

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.