Every rung counts–A retrospective analysis of global sanitation progress across the service-level ladder under the MDGs
Fig 5
Progress from 1990–2015 across the MDG and ladder score among all 190 countries in our analysis using the categorical definitions of progress established by JMP.
(a) 138 countries that were in the same progress category are divided by the diagonal line indicating whether the country closed a larger percentage of the gap on the Ladder or MDG metric, and (b) global map illustrating country-level categorical progress on the Ladder Score vs. MDGs. An additional six countries closed 100% of the sanitation gap; they thus fall directly on the line in the “Met Goal” category and are not included in the figure. The countries with different categorical progress across the MDG and Ladder Score metrics are also listed in Table 5. Some wealthy countries with very high 1990 and 2015 coverage (e.g., USA, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden) showed slightly less progress on the ladder, either due to a slightly higher 1990 baseline ladder score than 1990 MDG score or because of a slight increase in the modeled % Shared. The base layer of the map is from naturalearthdata.com.