It’s World Toilet Day – and that’s no joke
Did you know?
- 2.5 billion people – around one in three of the world’s population – don’t have a safe, clean, private toilet.
- Around 500,000 children die every year from diarrhoea caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation – that’s almost 1,400 children a day.
- Every year, around 60 million children are born into homes without access to sanitation.
- More people in the world have a mobile phone than a toilet.
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