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Lower middle income
Population living in slums (% of urban population)

Within the “Lower middle income” group, Sao Tome and Principe leads Population living in slums (% of urban population) in 2022 at 82, while Solomon Islands sits at the lower end of the current snapshot with 2. This format is well suited to long-tail regional and income-group queries.

Group leaders

0.020.641.261.882.4Sao Tome and PrincipeSao Tome and Principe: 8282.4Congo, Rep.Congo, Rep.: 7575.3TanzaniaTanzania: 7070.1BeninBenin: 6464.0AngolaAngola: 6362.7MauritaniaMauritania: 5958.6MyanmarMyanmar: 5858.3PakistanPakistan: 5656.0ZimbabweZimbabwe: 5554.9Lao PDRLao PDR: 5554.8BangladeshBangladesh: 5251.5HaitiHaiti: 5151.1

Country table

#CountryValue
1 Sao Tome and Principe 82
2 Congo, Rep. 75
3 Tanzania 70
4 Benin 64
5 Angola 63
6 Mauritania 59
7 Myanmar 58
8 Pakistan 56
9 Zimbabwe 55
10 Lao PDR 55
11 Bangladesh 52
12 Haiti 51
13 Djibouti 49
14 Comoros 49
15 Nigeria 48
16 Cote d'Ivoire 48
17 Zambia 48
18 Bolivia 47
19 Senegal 46
20 Bhutan 45
21 Guinea 44
22 Cambodia 42
23 Namibia 41
24 Kenya 40
25 Nepal 40
26 Togo 38
27 Timor-Leste 34
28 Ghana 33
29 Cameroon 33
30 Venezuela, RB 26
31 Lesotho 26
32 Papua New Guinea 22
33 Eswatini 17
34 Morocco 11
35 Tunisia 8
36 Uzbekistan 7
37 Kiribati 6
38 Lebanon 5
39 Egypt, Arab Rep. 4
40 Vanuatu 3
41 Kyrgyz Republic 2
42 Solomon Islands 2

Analytical takeaways

  • Inside the Lower middle income group for Population living in slums (% of urban population) in 2022, Sao Tome and Principe leads with a gap of 7 to the next country.
  • The peer set on this page covers 42 countries, and the lower end of the current distribution sits with Solomon Islands at 2.
  • This page bridges the global ranking context with a more relevant regional or income-based comparison layer.