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[1] This is a list of States and Union Territories of India ranked by access to safe drinking water.

List

The list is compiled from the 2011 India Census Report published by Government of India.[2][3] The rank is based on the percentage of households which have access to safe drinking water.

Kerala ranked highest with 97.6%, while Andhra has the worst rank with only 33.5% households having access to safe drinking water. National average stands at 85.5%.

Rank State Percentage of households with access to safe drinking water(2011)
1 Kerala 97.6
2 Uttar Pradesh 95.1
3 Bihar 94.0
4 Haryana 93.8
5 Himachal Pradesh 93.7
6 Maharashtra 92.5
7 Uttarakhand 92.2
8 West Bengal 92.2
9 Punjab 90.5
10 Gujarat 90.3
11 Karnataka 87.5
12 Chhattisgarh 86.3
13 Goa 85.7
** All India Average 85.5
14 Sikkim 85.3
15 Tamil Nadu 83.4
16 Arunachal Pradesh 78.6
17 Rajasthan 78.1
18 Madhya Pradesh 78.0
U/T Jammu and Kashmir 76.8
20 Odisha 75.3
21 Assam 69.9
22 Tripura 67.5
23 Mizoram 60.4
24 Jharkhand 60.1
25 Nagaland 53.8
26 Manipur 45.4
27 Meghalaya 44.7
28 Andhra Pradesh 33.5
U/T Chandigarh 99.3
U/T Daman and Diu 98.7
U/T Puducherry 97.8
U/T Delhi 95.0
U/T Dadra and Nagar Haveli 91.6
U/T Andaman and Nicobar Islands 85.5
U/T Lakshadweep 22.8

Access to safe drinking water in households of India (%)

No States & Union territory 1991 2001 2011
Total Rural Urban Total Rural Urban Total Rural Urban

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Jammu & Kashmir

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na

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65.2

54.9

95.7

76.8

70.1

96.1

2 Himachal Pradesh 77.3 75.5 91.9 88.6 87.5 97.0 93.7 93.2 97.8
3 Punjab 92.7 92.1 94.2 97.6 96.9 98.9 97.6 96.7 98.9
4 Chandigarh 97.7 98.1 97.7 99.8 99.9 99.8 99.3 98.7 99.4
5 Uttarakhand a a a 86.7 83.0 97.8 92.2 89.5 98.7
6 Haryana 74.3 67.1 93.2 86.1 81.1 97.3 93.8 92.0 96.7
7 Delhi 95.8 91.0 96.2 97.2 90.1 97.7 95.0 87.9 95.2
8 Rajasthan 59.0 50.6 86.5 68.2 60.4 93.5 78.1 72.8 94.3
9 Uttar Pradesh 62.2 56.6 85.8 87.8 85.5 97.2 95.1 94.3 97.9
10 Bihar 58.8 56.5 73.4 86.6 86.1 91.2 94.0 93.9 94.7
11 Sikkim 73.1 70.8 92.8 70.7 67.0 97.1 85.3 82.7 92.2
12 Arunachal Pradesh 70.0 66.9 88.2 77.5 73.7 90.7 78.6 74.3 91.3
13 Nagaland 53.4 55.6 45.5 46.5 47.5 42.3 53.8 54.6 51.8
14 Manipur 38.7 33.7 52.1 37.0 29.3 59.4 45.4 37.5 60.8
15 Mizoram 16.2 12.9 19.9 36.0 23.8 47.8 60.4 43.4 75.8
16 Tripura 37.2 30.6 71.1 52.5 45.0 85.8 67.5 58.1 91.9
17 Meghalaya 36.2 26.8 75.4 39.0 29.5 73.5 44.7 35.1 79.5
18 Assam 45.9 43.3 64.1 58.8 56.8 70.4 69.9 68.3 78.2
19 West Bengal 82.0 80.3 86.2 88.5 87.0 92.3 92.2 91.4 93.9
20 Jharkhand a a a 42.6 35.5 68.2 60.1 54.3 78.4
21 Odisha 39.1 35.3 62.8 64.2 62.9 72.3 75.3 74.4 79.8
22 Chhattisgarh a a a 70.5 66.2 88.8 86.3 84.1 93.9
23 Madhya Pradesh 53.4 45.6 79.4 68.4 61.5 88.6 78.0 73.1 92.1
24 Gujarat 69.8 60.0 87.2 84.1 76.9 95.4 90.3 84.9 97.0
25 Daman & Diu 71.4 56.9 86.8 96.3 94.9 98.9 98.7 97.8 99.0
26 Dadra & Nagar Haveli 45.6 41.2 91.0 77.0 70.5 96.1 91.6 84.3 98.4
27 Maharashtra 68.5 54.0 90.5 79.8 68.4 95.4 83.4 73.2 95.7
28 Andhra Pradesh 55.1 49.0 73.8 80.1 76.9 90.2 90.5 88.6 94.5
29 Karnataka 71.7 67.3 81.4 84.6 80.5 92.1 87.5 84.4 92.3
30 Goa 43.4 30.5 61.7 70.1 58.3 82.1 85.7 78.4 90.4
31 Lakshadweep 11.9 3.4 18.8 4.6 4.6 4.6 22.8 31.2 20.2
32 Kerala 18.9 12.2 38.7 23.4 16.9 42.8 33.5 28.3 39.4
33 Tamil Nadu 67.4 64.3 74.2 85.6 85.3 85.9 92.5 92.2 92.9
34 Puducherry 88.8 92.9 86.1 95.9 96.6 95.5 97.8 99.6 97.0
35 Andaman & Nicobar Islands 67.9 59.4 90.9 76.7 66.8 97.8 85.5 78.2 98.1
All India 62.3 55.5 81.4 77.9 73.2 90.0 85.5 82.7 91.4

References

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