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WATER AND SANITATION PROGRAM: RESEARCH BRIEF
Scaling Up Rural Sanitation
Improved Sanitation Can Make Children Taller
and Smarter in Rural Tanzania
August 2014
KEY FINDINGS
INTRODUCTION
In Tanzania, 87.8 percent of households do not have ac-
• Children are, on average, shorter in communi-
cess to improved sanitation, such as a latrine or a toilet that ties where community members defecate in the
separates human feces from human contact. The situation open or use unimproved sanitation. In rural areas
is worse in rural areas, where 92.5 percent of households of Tanzania, 45 percent of children under five are
do not have improved sanitation. Among those without sani- stunted and 92.5 percent of households do not
tation, 5.6 million individuals defecate in the open. Unfortu- have access to improved sanitation.
nately, the situation is getting worse, not better. In 2012, more • The more open defecation and unimproved
people in rural Tanzania were defecating in the open than in sanitation are practiced, the more children are
2000. In those same areas, 45 percent of children under five stunted. This height difference indicates that not
were found to be stunted in 2010.