SDG 6
Clean Water and Sanitation
Ensure availability of water and sanitation for all.
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 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 →
- Safely managed drinking water (WB SH.H2O.SMDW.ZS; 6.1 Drinking water)
- Safely managed sanitation (WB SH.STA.SMSS.ZS; 6.2 Sanitation)
- Basic handwashing facilities (WB SH.STA.HYGN.ZS; 6.2 Hygiene)
- People practising open defecation (WB SH.STA.ODFC.ZS; 6.2 Sanitation)
- Water stress (freshwater withdrawal vs. available) (WB ER.H2O.FWST.ZS; 6.4 Water-use sustainability)
- Integrated water resources management implementation (UN ER_H2O_IWRMD; 6.5 Water management)
- Basic drinking water services (WB SH.H2O.BASW.ZS; 6.1 Drinking water)
- Basic sanitation services (WB SH.STA.BASS.ZS; 6.2 Sanitation)
- Household wastewater safely treated (UN EN_WWT_WWDS; 6.3 Wastewater)
- Water bodies with good water quality (UN EN_H2O_WBAMBQ; 6.3 Water quality)
- Water-use efficiency (UN ER_H2O_WUEYST; 6.4 Water-use efficiency)
Households on the public mains water supply, by county
| Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown | 96.9% |
| South Dublin | 96.3% |
| Fingal | 96.2% |
| Galway City | 94.7% |
| Dublin City | 93.5% |
| Kildare | 88.8% |
| Louth | 81.8% |
| Donegal | 81% |
| Wicklow | 80% |
| Waterford City and County | 79% |
| Cork City and Cork County | 78.9% |
| Longford | 78.8% |
| Kerry | 78.3% |
| Westmeath | 77.6% |
| Sligo | 77.6% |
| Tipperary | 76.6% |
| Limerick City and County | 76.3% |
| Meath | 75.4% |
| Roscommon | 72% |
| Carlow | 69.3% |
| Laois | 69% |
| Offaly | 68.2% |
| Clare | 67.7% |
| Leitrim | 66.6% |
| Wexford | 66.2% |
| Kilkenny | 63.1% |
| Mayo | 60.7% |
| Galway County | 56.9% |
| Cavan | 47% |
| Monaghan | 45.1% |
Source: CSO SDG 6.1.1 (table G0603) (2022)
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