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Universal access to sanitary means
of excreta disposal
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Trend
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5 percentage point increase with 747 million additional
people now having access.
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1990
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55% (2.9 billion)
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2000
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60%(3.6 billion)
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2010 goal
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33% increase
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Comments
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2.4 billion people still lack access,including half
of all people living in Asia.
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Sources: United Nations, Report of the Secretary-General,
‘We the Children: End-decade review of the follow-up to the
World Summit for Children’, A/S-27/3, United Nations, New
York, 4 May 2001; United Nations, Preparatory Committee for the
Special Session of the General Assembly on Children,‘A world
fit for children’, Revised draft outcome document A/AC-256/
CRP.6/Rev. 3, United Nations, New York, June 2001.
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