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

Within the “Upper middle income” group, Equatorial Guinea leads Population living in slums (% of urban population) in 2022 at 65, while North Macedonia sits at the lower end of the current snapshot with 0. This format is well suited to long-tail regional and income-group queries.

Group leaders

0.016.232.348.564.7Equatorial GuineaEquatorial Guinea: 6564.7EcuadorEcuador: 5857.8TuvaluTuvalu: 5150.9IraqIraq: 4949.3MauritiusMauritius: 4948.7Cabo VerdeCabo Verde: 4646.4PeruPeru: 4545.1Iran, Islamic Rep.Iran, Islamic Rep.: 4544.7Sri LankaSri Lanka: 4544.7BotswanaBotswana: 4039.6GabonGabon: 3938.8GuatemalaGuatemala: 3837.6

Country table

#CountryValue
1 Equatorial Guinea 65
2 Ecuador 58
3 Tuvalu 51
4 Iraq 49
5 Mauritius 49
6 Cabo Verde 46
7 Peru 45
8 Iran, Islamic Rep. 45
9 Sri Lanka 45
10 Botswana 40
11 Gabon 39
12 Guatemala 38
13 Philippines 36
14 Maldives 35
15 Samoa 35
16 Viet Nam 33
17 China 26
18 South Africa 24
19 Indonesia 19
20 Mongolia 18
21 Mexico 18
22 Libya 17
23 El Salvador 16
24 Suriname 16
25 Belize 16
26 Paraguay 15
27 Brazil 15
28 Argentina 15
29 Turkiye 14
30 Algeria 13
31 Dominican Republic 11
32 Cuba 11
33 Colombia 10
34 Fiji 9
35 Montenegro 9
36 Armenia 8
37 Turkmenistan 8
38 Georgia 7
39 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 3
40 Albania 3
41 Marshall Islands 2
42 Serbia 1
43 Jamaica 1
44 Kazakhstan 1
45 St. Lucia 0
46 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0
47 Tonga 0
48 North Macedonia 0

Analytical takeaways

  • Inside the Upper middle income group for Population living in slums (% of urban population) in 2022, Equatorial Guinea leads with a gap of 7 to the next country.
  • The peer set on this page covers 48 countries, and the lower end of the current distribution sits with North Macedonia at 0.
  • This page bridges the global ranking context with a more relevant regional or income-based comparison layer.