India vs Nigeria: Drinking water services in rural areas

India

4.82 million people

in 2024

Nigeria

8.21 million people

in 2024

India rank

5th

Nigeria rank

2nd

Drinking water services in rural areas over time

Nigeria currently reports 8.21 million people against 4.82 million people in India, a difference of 3.39 million people.

That makes Nigeria's figure about 1.7 times India's.

Across all 25 years both countries report, Nigeria has been ahead every year.

India ranks 5th and Nigeria ranks 2nd of 178 countries.

Indicator: Drinking water services in rural areas
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: 178 places, 4,232 data points, 2000–2024
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

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