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Malawi
Population living in slums (% of urban population)

Population living in slums is the proportion of the urban population living in slum households. A slum household is defined as a group of individuals living under the same roof lacking one or more of the following conditions: access to improved water, access to improved sanitation, sufficient living area, housing durability, and security of tenure, as adopted in the Millennium Development Goal Target 7.D. The successor, the Sustainable Development Goal 11.1.1, considers inadequate housing (housing affordability) to complement the above definition of slums/informal settlements.

Global rank#60out of 181 countries
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Historical trend

81.470.659.748.838.0200020112022Malawi · 2022: 38Malawi

Analytical takeaways

  • Malawi records 38 for Population living in slums (% of urban population) in 2022, ranking #60 globally out of 181 countries.
  • Population living in slums (% of urban population) declined from 81 in 2000 to 38 in 2022, a decrease of 43.
  • The country sits in the middle of the global distribution for this metric, making the page a balanced entry point for comparative analysis beyond the extremes.

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