Of Pakistan's 177 million people, about 48 million go where they please. But Pakistan has seen incredible gains over the past two decades in increasing access to toilets and other sanitation facilities, with 47 million people no longer defecating in the open, according to the WHO's 2010 update on progress on sanitation and drinking water.
But Pakistan saw setbacks recently with the massive flooding that displaced millions of people and worsened already poor sanitation conditions, as the Monitor reported.
