Guatemala Urban Slum and Housing Affordability Indicators from UN-Habitat

Proportion and total count of urban populations living in slums or informal settlements in Guatemala, based on four UN-Habitat shelter deprivation indicators. The dataset also includes the proportion of urban populations living in housing that costs more than 30% of their monthly income. It was created by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and last updated on 2026-05-06.

Use Cases

• Modeling urban poverty and informal settlement growth based on UN-Habitat deprivation indicators.
• Analyzing housing cost burdens based on the proportion of income spent on housing.
• Comparing slum population metrics across different regions or territories within Guatemala.
• Informing public policy on housing and urban development based on standardized deprivation measures.

Strengths

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

Limitations

• Excludes the 'security of tenure' deprivation indicator due to data limitations, which is a core component of the full UN-Habitat definition.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Calculated based on household shelter deprivations and housing expenditure data, following UN-Habitat definitions.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 22:55:35.810285; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Guatemala, with breakdowns by territory and region.