South Sudan Urban Slum Population Proportions Based on UN-Habitat Deprivations

Proportion of urban population living in slums or informal settlements per country, territory and region, based on 4 out of 5 main household shelter deprivations defined by UN-Habitat. The dataset also includes the proportion of urban population living in inadequate housing based on households with net monthly expenditure on housing exceeding 30% of their total monthly income. Data is provided by the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) and was last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze urban housing affordability based on the proportion of households spending over 30% of income on housing.
• Map the prevalence of slum conditions based on UN-Habitat's shelter deprivation indicators.
• Compare slum population proportions across different countries and regions.
• Assess progress towards SDG 11 (Sustainable Cities and Communities) targets related to adequate housing.

Strengths

• Data is based on a standardized UN-Habitat methodology for defining slum/informal settlements.
• Covers multiple geographic levels including country, territory, and region.
• Includes two distinct metrics: slum population proportion and housing cost burden proportion.

Limitations

• Security of tenure, the fifth key deprivation indicator, is excluded due to data limitations.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Likely compiled from national surveys and census data using UN-Habitat's deprivation indicator framework.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-06 22:51:50.144062; freshness should be verified.

Geography

South Sudan, with data likely aggregated at country, territory, and regional levels.