Benin vs Sri Lanka: Drinking water services

Benin

370,932 people

in 2024

Sri Lanka

455,386 people

in 2024

Benin rank

47th

Sri Lanka rank

44th

Drinking water services over time

Sri Lanka currently reports 455,386 people against 370,932 people in Benin, a difference of 84,454 people.

That makes Sri Lanka's figure about 1.2 times Benin's.

The two have swapped places 1 time across 25 shared years of data; in 2000 it was Benin ahead.

Benin ranks 47th and Sri Lanka ranks 44th of 231 countries.

Indicator: Drinking water services
Unit: people
Source: WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (2025) – processed by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 231 places, 5,429 data points, 2000–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Number of people using drinking water directly collected from surface waters.