Most Open Defecation Happens in Rural India

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A woman in an orange kurta gives a TEDx presentation, explaining with a pie chart that most open defecation worldwide occurs in rural India. The clip is shared as a shocking and darkly comic reaction to the statistic, often with poop and India emojis. EN: A woman in an orange kurta gives a TEDx presentation, explaining with a pie chart that most open defecation worldwide occurs in rural India. The clip is shared as a shocking and darkly comic reaction to the statistic, often with poop and India emojis.

If this circle represents all of the open defecation that happens in the world, this is the fraction that happens in India. And this is the fraction that happens only in rural India. 65% of rural Indians defecate in the open. So what that means is that most of the open defecation that happens in the world happens in rural India, and most rural Indians defecate in the open. Every day, 500 million people in villages in India go in the fields rather than use a toilet or a latrine.

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