The Millennium Development Goals and the Road to 2015: Building on Progress and Responding to Crisis

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MAP 8 Lack of access to a safe, convenient water source increases the risk of disease and burdens women and children with fetching water

Access to water: Share of population with access to improved water source, % (2008) <50 50–69 70–89 90–99 100 no data

Greenland (Den)

Canada

United States

Bermuda (UK)

The Bahamas Cayman Is. (UK)

Mexico

Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)

Cuba Haiti Jamaica

Belize Guatemala Honduras El Salvador Nicaragua

Costa Rica Panama

R.B. de Venezuela

Guyana Suriname

Colombia Ecuador

Kiribati

Samoa

Fiji

Cook Is. (NZ)

French Guiana (Fr)

Brazil

Peru

French Polynesia (Fr)

American Samoa (US)

Bolivia

Tonga Dominican Puerto Republic Rico (US) U.S. Virgin Islands (US)

This map was produced by the Map Design Unit of The World Bank. The boundaries, colors, denominations and any other information shown on this map do not imply, on the part of The World Bank Group, any judgment on the legal status of any territory, or any endorsement or acceptance of such boundaries.

Netherlands Antilles (Neth) Aruba (Neth)

Paraguay

British Virgin Islands (UK) Anguilla (UK)

Antigua and Barbuda St. Kitts and Nevis Montserrat (UK)

St. Vincent and The Grenadines

Guadeloupe (Fr)

Chile

Dominica

Argentina

Martinique (Fr)

St. Lucia Barbados Grenada

R.B. de Venezuela

Trinidad and Tobago

Antarctica

Source: World Development Indicators.

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