Global Health Facility Waste Management Indicators from UNICEF

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ) provides a dataset measuring the proportion of healthcare facilities lacking safe waste management services. The data, last updated in March 2026, specifically tracks facilities without separate bins for sharps or infectious waste and where such waste is not safely treated or disposed. It is released under a CC-BY-3.0-IGO license.

Use Cases

• Assessing infection control risks in healthcare systems based on reported lack of separate waste bins.
• Monitoring progress on sanitation and hygiene (WASH) goals based on the proportion of facilities with unsafe waste disposal.
• Modeling correlations between waste management services and public health outcomes based on facility-level indicator data.
• Prioritizing resource allocation for health infrastructure based on geographic gaps in safe waste treatment services.

Strengths

• Data is provided by UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ), an authoritative source for global child and health indicators.
• The dataset is explicitly focused on a key public health and environmental safety metric.
• It was last updated on 2026-03-26, suggesting recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

UNICEF Data and Analytics (HQ)

Collection Method

Likely collected through surveys or administrative reporting from healthcare facilities.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 09:44:02.865634

Geography

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