07-20-2008, 06:31 AM
<!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo--> Loo and behold!
NEW DELHI: India has the highest number of people who defecate in the open. Numbers released on Thursday by the World Health Organisation and UNICEF revealed that 1.2 billion people practise open defecation globally â 83% of whom live in 13 countries including India.
In sheer numbers, 665 million Indians defecate in the open followed by 66 million in Indonesia, 52 million in Ethiopia, 50 million in Pakistan, 37 million in China, 29 million in Nigeria and 18 million each in Brazil and Bangladesh.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/O...how/3254576.cms
NEW DELHI: India has the highest number of people who defecate in the open. Numbers released on Thursday by the World Health Organisation and UNICEF revealed that 1.2 billion people practise open defecation globally â 83% of whom live in 13 countries including India.
In sheer numbers, 665 million Indians defecate in the open followed by 66 million in Indonesia, 52 million in Ethiopia, 50 million in Pakistan, 37 million in China, 29 million in Nigeria and 18 million each in Brazil and Bangladesh.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/O...how/3254576.cms