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Urban population living in slums

Name: Urban population living in slums
Creator: United Nations SDG Global Database
Keywords: trending-statistics-research, daily-10, un-sdg, urban-housing

Compare urban population living in slums across 187 ISO-mapped countries or territories using the fixed 2024 UN SDG Global Database slice.

Source: United Nations SDG Global Database•187 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

20.4%

Median: 9.4%

Countries Covered

187

with available data

Highest

South Sudan

94.2%

Lowest

Czech Republic

0.0%

Top 5 Countries

1South Sudan94.2%

2Mali92.5%

3Sao Tome and Principe82.4%

4Chad82.0%

5Republic of the Congo75.3%

By Region

Key Findings

•187 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2024 observation in the selected slice.
•South Sudan has the highest published value (94.2 %).
•Czech Republic has the lowest published value (0 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (0.0%)High (94.2%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 20.4%)

About This Statistic

Proportion of the urban population living in slum households.

MapTheory retains one fixed year, unit and dimension slice. Only finite ISO-mapped observations are included; aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicates and other dimensions are excluded. No values are estimated or imputed by MapTheory.

Methodology

Proportion of the urban population living in slum households.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	South Sudan	94.2%
2	Mali	92.5%
3	Sao Tome and Principe	82.4%
4	Chad	82.0%
5	Republic of the Congo	75.3%
6	Sudan	73.7%
7	Afghanistan	72.4%
8	Ethiopia	70.7%
9	Central African Republic	68.9%
10	Democratic Republic of the Congo	66.7%
11	Madagascar	64.6%
12	Niger	64.0%
13	Benin	63.1%
14	Guinea-Bissau	59.0%
15	Liberia	58.7%
16	Myanmar	58.3%
17	Ecuador	57.8%
18	Mauritania	57.6%
19	Mozambique	57.6%
20	Equatorial Guinea	57.2%
21	Angola	56.2%
22	Pakistan	56.0%
23	Uganda	52.7%
24	Nauru	51.3%
25	Haiti	51.1%
26	Tuvalu	50.9%
27	Iraq	49.3%
28	Mayotte	48.3%
29	Eritrea	48.3%
30	Djibouti	48.3%
31	Mauritius	48.3%
32	Reunion	48.3%
33	Seychelles	48.3%
34	Somalia	48.3%
35	Cote d'Ivoire	47.4%
36	Comoros	47.0%
37	Bolivia	46.6%
38	Cape Verde	44.7%
39	Saint Helena	44.7%
40	Peru	44.3%
41	Yemen	44.2%
42	Guinea	44.0%
43	Zambia	43.4%
44	Sri Lanka	42.6%
45	Islamic Republic of Iran	42.3%
46	Bhutan	42.3%
47	Namibia	41.4%
48	Botswana	39.6%
49	Cambodia	38.9%
50	Malawi	38.0%
51	Gabon	37.9%
52	Nepal	37.7%
53	Guatemala	37.6%
54	Syrian Arab Republic	37.0%
55	Burundi	36.8%
56	Maldives	34.8%
57	Samoa	34.6%
58	Timor-Leste	33.9%
59	Cameroon	32.7%
60	Vietnam	32.5%
61	Lesotho	30.4%
62	United Republic of Tanzania	29.6%
63	Senegal	27.7%
64	Venezuela	26.4%
65	People's Republic of China	26.3%
66	North Korea	23.0%
67	Rwanda	22.4%
68	Papua New Guinea	22.1%
69	Armenia	21.7%
70	Indonesia	19.4%
71	Brunei Darussalam	18.1%
72	Mongolia	17.9%
73	Lao People's Democratic Republic	17.2%
74	Libya	16.6%
75	Western Sahara	16.6%
76	El Salvador	16.5%
77	Panama	16.3%
78	Suriname	15.8%
79	Uzbekistan	15.8%
80	Belize	15.7%
81	Eswatini	15.5%
82	Paraguay	15.1%
83	Argentina	14.5%
84	Türkiye	14.1%
85	Kazakhstan	12.1%
86	Guyana	11.3%
87	Algeria	11.3%
88	Dominican Republic	11.3%
89	Cuba	11.0%
90	Morocco	10.9%
91	Mexico	10.7%
92	South Africa	10.5%
93	Colombia	9.7%
94	Fiji	9.4%
95	Trinidad and Tobago	8.8%
96	Montenegro	8.8%
97	Ireland	8.5%
98	Tunisia	7.2%
99	Georgia	7.1%
100	Kyrgyzstan	6.3%
101	Cayman Islands	5.6%
102	Kiribati	4.5%
103	Egypt	3.8%
104	Costa Rica	3.6%
105	Vanuatu	3.2%
106	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2.8%
107	Hong Kong	2.6%
108	Solomon Islands	2.6%
109	French Polynesia	2.5%
110	Poland	2.2%
111	Japan	2.0%
112	Canada	1.6%
113	Romania	1.6%
114	Marshall Islands	1.5%
115	Anguilla	1.5%
116	Serbia	1.4%
117	Uruguay	1.3%
118	Virgin Islands, U.S.	1.1%
119	Antigua and Barbuda	1.1%
120	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	0.9%
121	Jamaica	0.9%
122	American Samoa	0.8%
123	Latvia	0.8%
124	Guam	0.6%
125	Palau	0.6%
126	Russian Federation	0.6%
127	Slovenia	0.5%
128	Cook Islands	0.5%
129	Martinique	0.5%
130	Sweden	0.4%
131	Saint Lucia	0.3%
132	Bulgaria	0.3%
133	Lithuania	0.3%
134	Cyprus	0.2%
135	New Caledonia	0.2%
136	Saudi Arabia	0.2%
137	Estonia	0.2%
138	United Kingdom	0.2%
139	Tonga	0.1%
140	United Arab Emirates	0.1%
141	Turkmenistan	0.1%
142	Spain	0.1%
143	The Republic of North Macedonia	0.1%
144	United States of America	0.1%
145	Slovakia	0.1%
146	Croatia	0.1%
147	Bermuda	0.1%
148	Austria	0.1%
149	Northern Mariana Islands	0.0%
150	Australia	0.0%
151	Turks and Caicos Islands	0.0%
152	Italy	0.0%
153	Luxembourg	0.0%
154	Portugal	0.0%
155	Czech Republic	0.0%
156	Denmark	0.0%
157	Dominica	0.0%
158	Finland	0.0%
159	France	0.0%
160	Germany	0.0%
161	Gibraltar	0.0%
162	Greenland	0.0%
163	Grenada	0.0%
164	Guadeloupe	0.0%
165	Israel	0.0%
166	Kuwait	0.0%
167	Macao	0.0%
168	Malta	0.0%
169	Monaco	0.0%
170	Montserrat	0.0%
171	Oman	0.0%
172	Netherlands	0.0%
173	Curaçao	0.0%
174	Aruba	0.0%
175	New Zealand	0.0%
176	Norway	0.0%
177	Micronesia, Federated States of	0.0%
178	Puerto Rico	0.0%
179	Saint Kitts and Nevis	0.0%
180	San Marino	0.0%
181	Singapore	0.0%
182	Switzerland	0.0%
183	Andorra	0.0%
184	Bahamas	0.0%
185	Barbados	0.0%
186	Belgium	0.0%
187	Virgin Islands, British	0.0%

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Data Source

This data comes from United Nations SDG Global Database (2024).

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