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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
51 Cambodia 42
52 Namibia 41
53 Syrian Arab Republic 41
54 Kenya 40
55 Nepal 40
56 Botswana 40
57 Gabon 39
58 Togo 38
59 Rwanda 38
60 Malawi 38
61 Guatemala 38
62 Gambia, The 37
63 Burundi 37
64 Philippines 36
65 Maldives 35
66 Samoa 35
67 Timor-Leste 34
68 Ghana 33
69 Cameroon 33
70 Viet Nam 33
71 China 26
72 Venezuela, RB 26
73 Lesotho 26
74 South Africa 24
75 Korea, Dem. People's Rep. 23
76 Papua New Guinea 22
77 Brunei Darussalam 22
78 Indonesia 19
79 Mongolia 18
80 Mexico 18
81 Eswatini 17
82 Libya 17
83 El Salvador 16
84 Panama 16
85 Suriname 16
86 Belize 16
87 Paraguay 15
88 Brazil 15
89 Argentina 15
90 Turkiye 14
91 Algeria 13
92 Guyana 11
93 Dominican Republic 11
94 Cuba 11
95 Morocco 11
96 Colombia 10
97 Fiji 9
98 Montenegro 9
99 Trinidad and Tobago 9
100 Ireland 9
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.