Nigeria-focused data on urban housing conditions, produced by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme. The dataset includes the proportion and total count of urban populations living in slums or informal settlements, defined by four UN-Habitat shelter deprivations, and the proportion facing housing cost overburden. It was last updated on 2026-05-06.
Use Cases
- Estimate the scale of informal settlements based on UN-Habitat deprivation indicators.
- Analyze housing affordability stress by identifying populations spending over 30% of income on housing.
- Compare regional disparities in slum prevalence and housing conditions within Nigeria.
- Support policy evaluation for urban development and housing programs.
Strengths
- Data is based on a standardized UN-Habitat framework for measuring slum conditions.
- Includes two distinct metrics: slum population proportion and housing cost overburden.
- Published under the permissive PDDL-1.0 license.
- Sourced from the authoritative United Nations Human Settlements Programme.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- The UN-Habitat definition is missing the 'security of tenure' indicator due to data limitations.
- Row count and sample data are unavailable, limiting suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- United Nations Human Settlements Programme, Data and Analytics Section
- Collection Method
- Calculated based on household shelter deprivations and expenditure data, following UN-Habitat indicators.
- Time Range
- null
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-06 22:23:50.583422; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Nigeria, with potential regional breakdowns.