Burkina Faso Urban Slum Population and Housing Affordability Metrics

Burkina Faso's urban housing conditions are quantified by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme. The dataset includes the proportion and total number of urban residents living in slums or informal settlements, measured against four UN-Habitat shelter deprivation indicators. It also contains the proportion of urban households spending over 30% of their income on housing.

Use Cases

• Assess urban poverty and informality based on UN-Habitat shelter deprivation indicators.
• Analyze housing affordability stress based on household expenditure-to-income ratios.
• Monitor progress towards Sustainable Development Goals related to adequate housing.
• Compare slum prevalence across different countries and territories.
• Model the relationship between housing quality and access to water and sanitation.

Strengths

• Data is based on the standardized UN-Habitat definition of slum/informal settlement indicators.
• Measures two distinct aspects of housing: quality (slum conditions) and affordability (cost burden).
• Provided by the authoritative United Nations Human Settlements Programme, Data and Analytics Section.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The UN-Habitat security of tenure indicator is excluded due to data limitations.

Provenance

Source

United Nations Human Settlements Programme, Data and Analytics Section

Collection Method

Likely compiled from national surveys and statistics using UN-Habitat methodology.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 22:57:38.991379; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Burkina Faso, with potential for country, territory, and regional breakdowns.