WORLD PULSE
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World Pulse · dashboard

The world, indicator by indicator

21 indicators · 217 countries · 156,366 observations. Each indicator is read at the most recent year that still has near-complete coverage. Neither rule works alone: child stunting's newest year has six reporters, and internet use is best covered in 1990, when nearly every country reported it as zero.

People using safely managed drinking water services (% of population)

read at 2024 · 2 years old

Share of people using an improved water source that is on premises, available when needed, and free from contamination.

World median

80.7% of population

Countries reporting

148/ 217

Observations, all years

3.7k

The median is computed across the 148 countries reporting in 2024 — arithmetic over real values, not a published figure. Higher is better for this indicator.

How the world is spread · 2024

3 countries between 6.2 and 9.6 % of population2 countries between 9.6 and 12.9 % of population2 countries between 12.9 and 16.3 % of population6 countries between 16.3 and 19.6 % of population2 countries between 19.6 and 23.0 % of population2 countries between 23.0 and 26.3 % of population3 countries between 26.3 and 29.7 % of population6 countries between 29.7 and 33.0 % of population1 country between 33.0 and 36.4 % of population3 countries between 36.4 and 39.7 % of population3 countries between 39.7 and 43.1 % of population3 countries between 43.1 and 46.4 % of population7 countries between 46.4 and 49.8 % of population1 country between 53.1 and 56.5 % of population4 countries between 56.5 and 59.8 % of population2 countries between 59.8 and 63.2 % of population7 countries between 63.2 and 66.5 % of population4 countries between 66.5 and 69.9 % of population3 countries between 69.9 and 73.2 % of population6 countries between 73.2 and 76.6 % of population1 country between 76.6 and 79.9 % of population8 countries between 79.9 and 83.3 % of population2 countries between 83.3 and 86.6 % of population5 countries between 86.6 and 90.0 % of population7 countries between 90.0 and 93.3 % of population9 countries between 93.3 and 96.7 % of population46 countries between 96.7 and 100.0 % of populationMEDIAN6.2100.0
148 countries reporting · each bar is a count of countries, not a value · Pakistan 45.0 % of population

How much of the world was measured

ALL 2172000: 144 of 217 countries reported2001: 144 of 217 countries reported2002: 145 of 217 countries reported2003: 145 of 217 countries reported2004: 145 of 217 countries reported2005: 148 of 217 countries reported2006: 149 of 217 countries reported2007: 149 of 217 countries reported2008: 149 of 217 countries reported2009: 150 of 217 countries reported2010: 150 of 217 countries reported2011: 150 of 217 countries reported2012: 150 of 217 countries reported2013: 150 of 217 countries reported2014: 150 of 217 countries reported2015: 150 of 217 countries reported2016: 151 of 217 countries reported2017: 151 of 217 countries reported2018: 150 of 217 countries reported2019: 150 of 217 countries reported2020: 150 of 217 countries reported2021: 150 of 217 countries reported2022: 149 of 217 countries reported2023: 149 of 217 countries reported2024: 148 of 217 countries reported20002024
Best year 2016 with 151 of 217 · most recent 2024 with 148. A short bar means the world did not measure, not that the value fell.

Highest · 2024

Gibraltar100.0
Hong Kong SAR, China100.0
Hungary100.0
Iceland100.0
Kuwait100.0
Liechtenstein100.0
Macao SAR, China100.0
Monaco100.0

Lowest · 2024

Central African Republic6.2
Chad6.3
Tuvalu8.7
Sierra Leone10.9
Congo, Dem. Rep.11.9
Ethiopia13.5
Kiribati15.1
Nepal16.5

Read with care

  • · The strictest of the water measures — a country can score far higher on 'basic' water access than on this.
  • · Requires water-quality testing that many countries cannot do at national scale, so some figures are partly inferred.

What we can actually see

Coverage is wildly uneven, and that unevenness is a finding rather than a footnote. Life expectancy is near-universal; the survey-based indicators are not. Sorted by how much of the world reports at all.

IndicatorCountriesYearsRead atObservations
Life expectancy217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,071
Fertility rate217 / 2171960–20242024 (217)14,073
Population217 / 2171960–20252025 (217)14,292
Electricity access216 / 2171990–20242024 (215)6,747
GDP per capita214 / 2171960–20252025 (186)11,764
Internet use213 / 2171990–20252024 (182)6,224
Primary enrolment209 / 2171970–20252023 (166)7,495
GDP per capita (PPP)203 / 2171990–20252025 (185)7,020
Education spending203 / 2171970–20252022 (164)5,124
CO₂ per person203 / 2171970–20242024 (203)11,165
Under-5 mortality196 / 2171960–20242024 (196)11,861
Maternal mortality194 / 2171985–20232023 (194)7,566
Inflation193 / 2171960–20252025 (165)9,136
Health spending193 / 2172000–20242023 (192)4,562
Unemployment187 / 2171991–20252025 (182)6,531
Extreme poverty171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Income inequality (Gini)171 / 2171963–20252021 (81)2,430
Adult literacy170 / 2171970–20242022 (45)1,121
Military spending164 / 2171960–20242024 (147)7,909
Child stunting163 / 2171983–20242018 (48)1,129
Safe drinking water151 / 2172000–20242024 (148)3,716

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Nothing here is interpolated — where a country never reported, it is absent rather than estimated. Browse every country →