Venezuela Urban Housing and Slum Indicators from UN-Habitat

Proportion and total count of urban population living in slums or informal settlements in Venezuela, based on four UN-Habitat shelter deprivation indicators. The data also includes the proportion of urban population living in inadequate housing defined by housing cost overburden. United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) produced this dataset, last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Assess urban housing deprivation based on UN-Habitat's four shelter indicators.
• Analyze housing affordability stress based on the proportion of households spending over 30% of income on housing.
• Model the scale of informal settlements using the total urban population count in slums.
• Compare shelter deprivation metrics, excluding security of tenure, for policy evaluation.

Strengths

• Data is based on a standardized UN-Habitat methodology for measuring slums.
• Covers two distinct metrics: shelter deprivation and housing cost overburden.
• Produced by the authoritative United Nations Human Settlements Programme.

Limitations

• Excludes the fifth UN-Habitat deprivation indicator (security of tenure) 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, Data and Analytics Section

Collection Method

Likely compiled from national surveys and statistical reports using UN-Habitat definitions.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-05 06 22:50:27.697993; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)