indian states ranking by prevalence of open defecation indian states ranking by prevalence of open defecation this is a list of indian states and territories by the percentage of households which are open defecation free, that is those that have access to sanitation facilities, in both urban and rural areas along with data from the swachh bharat mission (under the ministry of drinking water and sanitation), national family health survey, and the national sample survey (under the ministry of statistics and programme implementation). the reliability of this information can be questioned, as it has been observed that there is still open defecation in some states claimed "odf". states and union territories of india ordered by area population gdp (per capita) abbreviations access to safe drinking water availability of toilets capitals child nutrition crime rate ease of doing business electricity penetration fertility rate forest cover highest point hdi home ownership household size human trafficking institutional delivery life expectancy at birth literacy rate media exposure number of vehicles number of voters open defecation origin of name past population places of worship poverty rate power capacity safety of women school enrollment rate sex ratio suicide rate tax revenues tv ownership transport network underweight people unemployment rate vaccination coverage wildlife population the swachh bhara missiont, a two-phase program managed by the indian government, india has constructed around 100 million additional household toilets which would benefit 500 million people in india according to the statistics provided by indian government (phase 1: 2014–2019, phase 2: 2020 to 2025). a campaign to build toilets in urban and rural areas achieved a significant reduction in open defecation between 2014 and 2019. in september 2019, the bill & melinda gates foundation awarded indian leader narendra modi for his efforts in improving sanitation in the country. according to unicef the number of people without a toilet reduced from 550 million to 50 million. there have also been reports of people not using the toilets despite having one, although according to the world bank 96% of indians used the toilets they had. in october 2019, modi declared india to be "open defecation free", though this announcement was met with skepticism by experts who cited slowly changing behaviors, maintenance issues, and water access issues as obstacles that continued to block india's goal of being 100% open defecation free. although open defecation still continues, it has been reduced by a large amount. with the success of the swachh bharat mission, modi has to launch phase 2 from 2020 to 2025. during phase 2 the government will focus on segregation of waste and further eliminating open defecation in the country. open defecation has been an issue in india. a report published by wateraid stated that india had the highest number of people without access to basic sanitation despite efforts made by the government of india under the swachh bharat mission. about 522 million people practiced open defecation in india in 2014, despite having access to a toilet. many factors contributed to this, ranging from poverty to government corruption. since then, through swachh bharat, a two-phase program managed by the indian government, india has constructed around 100 million additional household toilets which would benefit 500 million people in india according to the statistics provided by indian government (phase 1: 2014–2019, phase 2: 2020 to 2025). a campaign to build toilets in urban and rural areas achieved a significant reduction in open defecation between 2014 and 2019. in september 2019, the bill & melinda gates foundation awarded indian leader narendra modi for his efforts in improving sanitation in the country. according to unicef the number of people without a toilet reduced from 550 million to 50 million. there have also been reports of people not using the toilets despite having one, although according to the world bank 96% of indians used the toilets they had. in october 2019, modi declared india to be "open defecation free", though this announcement was met with skepticism by experts who cited slowly changing behaviors, maintenance issues, and water access issues as obstacles that continued to block india's goal of being 100% open defecation free. although open defecation still continues, it has been reduced by a large amount. with the success of the swachh bharat mission, modi has to launch phase 2 from 2020 to 2025. during phase 2 the government will focus on segregation of waste and further eliminating open defecation in the country. by 2016, three states/uts namely sikkim, himachal pradesh, kerala had been declared odf. household toilet construction increased from 43.79% in 2014, to 65.74% in 2016, to 98.53 in 2018. on 2 october 2019, all 35 states and union territories were declared defecation free. list no. state/ union territory % rural households with access to basic sanitation facility (swachh bharat mission, sept 2021) % rural of households with improved sanitation facility (nfhs 2019-2020) 1 a & n islands 100.0 88 2 andhra pradesh 99.99 72.1 3 arunachal pradesh 100.0 – 4 assam 100.0 68.4 5 bihar 99.54 45.7 6 chandigarh 100.0 – 7 chhattisgarh 100.0 – 8 d & n haveli 100.0 – 9 daman and diu 100.0 – 10 goa 100.0 86.4 11 gujarat 100.0 63.3 12 haryana 100.0 13 himachal pradesh 100.0 81.3 14 jammu and kashmir 100.0 72.3 15 jharkhand 100.0 – 16 karnataka 100.0 68.5 17 kerala 100.0 98.5 18 laskhadweep 100.0 100 19 madhya pradesh 100.0 – 20 maharashtra 99.91 69.4 21 manipur 99.97 67.5 22 meghalaya 100.0 83.3 23 mizoram 100.0 93.2 24 nagaland 100.0 90.4 25 odisha 100.0 – 26 puducherry 100.0 – 27 punjab 99.72 – 28 rajasthan 100.0 – 29 sikkim 100.0 89.3 30 tamil nadu 100.0 – 31 telangana 100.0 72.9 32 tripura 100.0 71.6 33 uttar pradesh 70.0 – 34 uttarakhand 99.99 – 35 west bengal 99.98 64.7 india 98.53 – notes individual household latrine application