GeoDevelopment Observatory of Bolivia / Indicators
SDG 6: Clean water and sanitation
The SDG 6 index of the Municipal Atlas of the SDGs and its three indicators of drinking water, sanitation and wastewater treatment in 2017, for every Bolivian municipality.
The SDG 6 (Clean water and sanitation) index of the Municipal Atlas of the Sustainable Development Goals in Bolivia 2020 (SDSN Bolivia) for all 339 municipalities, with the three indicators behind it, all for 2017: drinking water coverage and sanitation coverage (% of the population, unpublished official data of the Vice-Ministry of Drinking Water and Basic Sanitation, whose methodology the Atlas does not describe) and the share of wastewater treated (from the 2018 performance study of the regulated water and sewerage providers by the water regulator AAPS and the Ministry of Environment and Water). Each indicator is rescaled linearly to 0–100 between a worst and a best value, capped at both ends so that higher is always better, and the index (0–100, 100 = targets met) is the simple mean of the rescaled indicators. Treated wastewater is 0 in 311 municipalities and above 100 in six, as in the source. The Atlas population (2020) and urbanization rate (2012 census) are included as context; they are not inputs of the index.
Variables of sdg06
index_sdg6: Clean water and sanitation index (0-100). SDG 6 (Clean water and sanitation) index of the Municipal Atlas of the SDGs in Bolivia 2020, on a 0-100 scale where 100 means the goal's targets are met (best value) and 0 the worst situation. Following the global SDG Index method (Lafortune et al., 2018), each of its 3 indicators is rescaled linearly to 0-100 between a worst value (generally the 2.5th-percentile tail of the municipal distribution) and a best value (the SDG target where one exists, otherwise the average of the five best municipalities, or expert judgement), with the direction set so that higher is always better and values beyond the bounds capped at 0 or 100; the index is the simple (equal-weight) mean of the available rescaled indicators. Components: Drinking water coverage (%); Sanitation coverage (%); Wastewater treated (%). The components refer to different years; the observatory stores the index at 2017, the latest reference year among them.sdg6_1_dwc: Drinking water coverage (%). Percentage of the population with drinking-water coverage in 2017, unpublished official data provided by the Vice-Ministry of Drinking Water and Basic Sanitation; the Atlas has no details on its methodology. In the SDG 6 index it is normalised linearly between 28.4 (worst; 2.5th-percentile tail) and 100 (best; SDG target), values beyond the bounds capped.sdg6_2_sc: Sanitation coverage (%). Percentage of the population with sanitation coverage in 2017, unpublished official data provided by the Vice-Ministry of Drinking Water and Basic Sanitation; the Atlas has no details on its methodology. In the SDG 6 index it is normalised linearly between 5.7 (worst; 2.5th-percentile tail) and 100 (best; SDG target), values beyond the bounds capped.sdg6_3_wwt: Wastewater treated (%). Proportion of wastewater that is treated, 2017, from the 2018 performance study of the regulated water and sewerage providers (EPSAs) by the water regulator AAPS and the Ministry of Environment and Water. Six municipalities have values above 100 in the source data. In the SDG 6 index it is normalised linearly between 0 (worst; 2.5th-percentile tail) and 100 (best; global SDG Index), values beyond the bounds capped.population_2020: Population (persons). Estimated municipal population in 2020 (persons), as printed in the Atlas municipal profiles ("Población estimada, 2020"). The Atlas does not name the source; the 339 values sum to 11,633,371, exactly INE's 2020 national population projection (Revisión 2020 series), so they are presumably INE's municipal projections. Not an input of any goal index. Differs from the gridded WorldPop-based pop dataset.urbano_2012: Urbanization rate (%). Share of the municipal population living in urban areas in 2012 (%), as printed in the Atlas municipal profiles ("Tasa de urbanización, 2012"), from the 2012 Population and Housing Census (INE). INE counts as urban the localities with 2,000 or more inhabitants, which is why 175 municipalities have a rate of 0. Not an input of any goal index (the Atlas treats 15 almost fully urban municipalities as having no applicable farm indicators for SDG 2; 11 of them are 95% or more urban by this rate, while Sucre, Tiquipaya and Potosí are 91–92% and Yunguyo de Litoral 0%).
Sources
- Andersen, L. E., Canelas, S., Gonzales, A., & Peñaranda, L. (2020). Atlas municipal de los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible en Bolivia 2020. La Paz: Universidad Privada Boliviana, SDSN Bolivia. https://unsdsn.org/resources/municipal-atlas-of-the-sdgs-in-bolivia-2020
- Mendez, C., Gonzales, E., Leoni, P., Andersen, L., & Peralta, H. (2026). DS4Bolivia: A Data Science Repository to Study GeoSpatial Development in Bolivia [Data set]. GitHub. https://github.com/quarcs-lab/ds4bolivia