Proportion and total count of urban populations living in slums or informal settlements per country, territory, and region. The data is based on four of the five UN-Habitat household shelter deprivation indicators: lack of access to improved water, sanitation, sufficient living area, and durable structure. It also includes the proportion of urban population living in inadequate housing based on housing cost overburden. The dataset was produced by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and was last updated in May 2026.
Use Cases
- Monitor progress towards SDG 11.1 based on UN-Habitat's shelter deprivation indicators.
- Analyze regional disparities in housing inadequacy based on cost overburden data.
- Model the correlation between informal settlements and access to water and sanitation services.
- Benchmark national housing conditions against global and regional averages.
Strengths
- Data is structured using a standardized UN-Habitat methodology for measuring slum conditions.
- Coverage includes countries, territories, and regions, enabling multi-scale analysis.
- License is PDDL-1.0, permitting broad public domain use and modification.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- The fifth UN-Habitat deprivation indicator, security of tenure, is excluded due to data limitations.
- 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 survey data and UN-Habitat's shelter deprivation framework.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-06 22:23:33.900831; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Countries, territories, and regions globally.