India has the highest rate of open defecation: WHO
Nearly 1.2 billion practise open defecation worldwide and maximum of those live in India, according to a report released on Friday by the WHO/UNICEF. The report released by the Joint Monitoring Programme for Drinking-water Supply and Sanitation (JMP) suggests that over 2.5 billion people suffer from a lack of access to improved sanitation. Of these, about 665 million people in India still defecate in the open.