Ethiopia urban housing data includes the proportion and total population living in slums or informal settlements, based on four UN-Habitat household shelter deprivation indicators. The dataset also contains the proportion of urban population living in inadequate housing, defined by households spending over 30% of income on housing. It was produced by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme and last updated in May 2026.
Use Cases
- Calculate urban slum prevalence based on UN-Habitat deprivation indicators mentioned in the description
- Analyze housing affordability based on the proportion of households exceeding the 30% expenditure threshold
- Compare informal settlement populations across different regions within Ethiopia
- Assess urban housing conditions excluding the security of tenure dimension due to data limitations
Strengths
- Data is based on four standardized UN-Habitat deprivation indicators for defining slums
- Includes two distinct metrics: proportion in slums and proportion with excessive housing expenditure
- Produced by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme, an authoritative source
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
- Security of tenure, a key UN-Habitat deprivation indicator, is excluded due to data limitations
Provenance
- Source
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme, Data and Analytics Section
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-06 22:55:56.543533; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- Ethiopia