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SDG 6

Clean Water and Sanitation

Ensure availability of water and sanitation for all.

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Ireland: Significant challenges remain· Stagnating

Official figures from the Sustainable Development Report 2026 (Sachs, Lafortune, Fuller, Iablonovski — SDSN), shown as published — only the layout is ours. The report is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by SDSN. Imported from their published database on 2026-09-21.

What this goal covers

  • •Achieve universal access to safe, affordable drinking water
  • •Achieve access to adequate sanitation and hygiene for all, ending open defecation
  • •Improve water quality by cutting pollution and hazardous waste

Simplified from the UN's official targets for this goal.

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Goal 6 score, by country

Ireland Other countries
1Monaco
99.6/100
2Hong Kong SAR, China
97.8/100
3Singapore
97.6/100
4Switzerland
97.2/100
5Austria
96.9/100
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31Ireland
86/100
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189Burkina Faso
22.7/100
190Ethiopia
21.1/100
191Eritrea
18.9/100
192Central African Republic
17.8/100
193Chad
14.3/100

Ireland is in rank group 31 of 193 (out of 193 countries with a score for this goal).

What makes up Ireland's score (86 out of 100)

The average of 10 indicator scores, one per official target area. Each bar scores Ireland from 0 to 100 on that indicator: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0.

  • 6.2 Sanitation · People practising open defecation0% (2024)
    100
  • 6.5 Water management · Integrated water resources management implementation87% (2023)
    100
  • 6.4 Water-use efficiency · Water-use efficiency233.7 US$ per m³ (2023)
    100
  • 6.1 Drinking water · Safely managed drinking water96.1% of population (2024)
    96
  • 6.4 Water-use sustainability · Water stress (freshwater withdrawal vs. available)8.1% (2022)
    95
  • 6.1 Drinking water · Basic drinking water services97.1% of population (2024)
    92
  • 6.2 Sanitation · Basic sanitation services89.7% of population (2024)
    87
  • 6.2 Sanitation · Safely managed sanitation81.3% of population (2024)
    81
  • 6.3 Water quality · Water bodies with good water quality58.2% (2023)
    58
  • 6.3 Wastewater · Household wastewater safely treated50.8% (2024)
    51

1 other indicator for this goal has no recent data for Ireland, so it isn't in the average.

Simplified score, may contain errors. See how it's built

Chart data: World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0) and the UN SDG Global Database (UNdata terms). Each goal score (0–100, 100 = best) averages a country's scores on several official indicators, one per main target area of the goal (11 for this goal). Each indicator is scored against a range set by the data: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0. Latest value per country since 2010; fetched 2026-09-22. The scores are calculated by this site; the underlying values are the sources', unchanged. How the scores are built →

Households on the public mains water supply, by county

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown96.9%
South Dublin96.3%
Fingal96.2%
Galway City94.7%
Dublin City93.5%
Kildare88.8%
Louth81.8%
Donegal81%
Wicklow80%
Waterford City and County79%
Cork City and Cork County78.9%
Longford78.8%
Kerry78.3%
Westmeath77.6%
Sligo77.6%
Tipperary76.6%
Limerick City and County76.3%
Meath75.4%
Roscommon72%
Carlow69.3%
Laois69%
Offaly68.2%
Clare67.7%
Leitrim66.6%
Wexford66.2%
Kilkenny63.1%
Mayo60.7%
Galway County56.9%
Cavan47%
Monaghan45.1%

Source: CSO SDG 6.1.1 (table G0603) (2022)

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