Just because a country doesn’t do something doesn’t mean that another shouldn’t do it. But even then, 377.7 million people in 25 counties have access to artificially fluoridated water supplies and a further 57.4 million people in 28 countries have naturally fluoridated supplies at the optimal level. This is no small number.
Countries like Jamaica, Costa Rica, Mexico, Uruguay, Colombia, Switzerland, France and Germany use salt fluoridation. With a number of these countries making sure the salt gets added to school meals and baked into commercial bread.
Countries like Bulgaria, Thailand and Chile use milk fluoridation with 800,000 children in five countries participating in milk fluoridation programmes.

People don’t realise that other countries without community water fluoridation use other fluoride methods to help with caries. So for those who are against the adjusting of fluoride in water should be fighting for a change in the fluoride method. However, this doesn’t happen. What we see once it is removed from a place is there is nothing done to replace it; because of this, the vulnerable get affected the most.

Update for clarity:
The map legend is FAKE. Real sanitation map link is below.
Fluoridation has nothing to do with sanitation. Real fluoridation map links below.

Sources:

WHO report on water and sanitation
Sanitation map
The extent of water fluoridation
WHO report on salt fluoridation
WHO report on milk fluoridation

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