Central African Republic Urban Slum and Housing Affordability Indicators

Proportions and totals of the urban population living in slums or informal settlements in the Central African Republic, based on four UN-Habitat shelter deprivation indicators. The dataset also includes the proportion of urban population living in housing that costs more than 30% of their monthly income. It was produced by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) Data and Analytics Section and was last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Assessing urban informality based on UN-Habitat's shelter deprivation indicators like access to water and sanitation.
• Analyzing housing affordability stress based on the proportion of income spent on housing.
• Monitoring progress towards Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 11.1 on adequate housing and slum upgrading.
• Comparing slum prevalence and housing cost burdens across different regions or territories within the country.

Strengths

• Based on a standardized UN-Habitat methodology using four key shelter deprivation indicators.
• Includes two distinct but related metrics: slum population and housing cost overburden.
• Data is provided at the country, territory, and regional level for spatial analysis.

Limitations

• Excludes the 'security of tenure' deprivation indicator due to stated data limitations.
• Row count and sample size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), Data and Analytics Section

Collection Method

Likely derived from national household surveys or census data, applying UN-Habitat's operational definitions for slums and housing affordability.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 22:57:18.505251; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Central African Republic, with breakdowns by territory and region.