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Population living in slums (% of urban population)

For 2022, Population living in slums (% of urban population) is led by South Sudan at 94. This page combines ranking, historical trend, and map-based distribution.

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.

Countries ranked 181
Snapshot year 2022
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0.023.647.170.794.2South SudanSouth Sudan: 9494.2MaliMali: 9292.5Burkina FasoBurkina Faso: 8887.9Sao Tome and PrincipeSao Tome and Principe: 8282.4ChadChad: 8282.0Congo, Dem. Rep.Congo, Dem. Rep.: 7878.4Congo, Rep.Congo, Rep.: 7575.3SudanSudan: 7473.7AfghanistanAfghanistan: 7271.6NigerNiger: 7070.4TanzaniaTanzania: 7070.1Central African RepublicCentral African Republic: 6968.9
Rank Country Value
1 South Sudan 94
2 Mali 92
3 Burkina Faso 88
4 Sao Tome and Principe 82
5 Chad 82
6 Congo, Dem. Rep. 78
7 Congo, Rep. 75
8 Sudan 74
9 Afghanistan 72
10 Niger 70
11 Tanzania 70
12 Central African Republic 69
13 Madagascar 66
14 Equatorial Guinea 65
15 Ethiopia 64
16 Benin 64
17 Angola 63
18 Liberia 60
19 Guinea-Bissau 59
20 Mauritania 59
21 Myanmar 58
22 Ecuador 58
23 Pakistan 56
24 Mozambique 55
25 Zimbabwe 55
26 Lao PDR 55
27 Uganda 53
28 Bangladesh 52
29 Haiti 51
30 Tuvalu 51
31 Iraq 49
32 Sierra Leone 49
33 Djibouti 49
34 Eritrea 49
35 Mauritius 49
36 Seychelles 49
37 Somalia, Fed. Rep. 49
38 Comoros 49
39 Nigeria 48
40 Cote d'Ivoire 48
41 Zambia 48
42 Bolivia 47
43 Senegal 46
44 Cabo Verde 46
45 Peru 45
46 Bhutan 45
47 Iran, Islamic Rep. 45
48 Sri Lanka 45
49 Yemen, Rep. 44
50 Guinea 44
Some World Bank indicators are published with a lag. The site always shows the latest actually available year for each country and indicator.

Analytical takeaways

  • South Sudan sits at the top of the Population living in slums (% of urban population) distribution in 2022 at 94, with a lead of 2 over the next country.
  • The median country in the current global snapshot is Algeria at 13, which helps frame the center of the distribution rather than only the leaders.
  • At the lower end of the current sample sits Switzerland (0), and the page currently covers 181 countries.