Of the economies in the World Bank's latest release, South Sudan has the highest population living in slums (% of urban population) (94.2% in 2022) and Switzerland the lowest (0% in 2022).
What this measures
Population living in slums is the proportion of the urban population living in slum households. A slum household is defined as a group of individuals living under the same roof lacking one or more of the following conditions: access to improved water, access to improved sanitation, sufficient living area, housing durability, and security of tenure, as adopted in the Millennium Development Goal Target 7.D. The successor, the Sustainable Development Goal 11.1.1, considers inadequate housing (housing affordability) to complement the above definition of slums/informal settlements.
Each country's latest available year is shown; countries report on different schedules, so compare years before comparing values.
Ranking
| # | Economy | Latest value | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Sudan | 94.2% | 2022 |
| 2 | Mali | 92.5% | 2022 |
| 3 | Burkina Faso | 87.88% | 2022 |
| 4 | São Tomé and Principe | 82.39% | 2022 |
| 5 | Chad | 82% | 2022 |
| 6 | Congo, Dem. Rep. | 78.36% | 2022 |
| 7 | Congo, Rep. | 75.34% | 2022 |
| 8 | Sudan | 73.7% | 2022 |
| 9 | Niger | 70.44% | 2022 |
| 10 | Tanzania | 70.09% | 2022 |
| 11 | Central African Republic | 68.91% | 2022 |
| 12 | Madagascar | 65.72% | 2022 |
| 13 | Equatorial Guinea | 64.69% | 2022 |
| 14 | Ethiopia | 64.31% | 2022 |
| 15 | Benin | 64.01% | 2022 |
| 16 | Angola | 62.7% | 2022 |
| 17 | Liberia | 60.48% | 2022 |
| 18 | Mauritania | 58.56% | 2022 |
| 19 | Myanmar | 58.28% | 2022 |
| 20 | Pakistan | 55.97% | 2022 |
| 21 | Mozambique | 54.96% | 2022 |
| 22 | Zimbabwe | 54.88% | 2022 |
| 23 | Lao PDR | 54.84% | 2022 |
| 24 | Uganda | 52.68% | 2022 |
| 25 | Bangladesh | 51.51% | 2022 |
| 26 | Haiti | 51.06% | 2022 |
| 27 | Tuvalu | 50.9% | 2022 |
| 28 | Iraq | 49.34% | 2022 |
| 29 | Sierra Leone | 49.28% | 2022 |
| 30 | Djibouti | 48.69% | 2022 |
| 31 | Eritrea | 48.69% | 2022 |
| 32 | Mauritius | 48.69% | 2022 |
| 33 | Seychelles | 48.69% | 2022 |
| 34 | Somalia, Fed. Rep. | 48.69% | 2022 |
| 35 | Comoros | 48.5% | 2022 |
| 36 | Nigeria | 48.5% | 2022 |
| 37 | Côte d'Ivoire | 48.26% | 2022 |
| 38 | Zambia | 48.26% | 2022 |
| 39 | Senegal | 46.41% | 2022 |
| 40 | Cabo Verde | 46.41% | 2022 |
| 41 | Peru | 45.06% | 2022 |
| 42 | Bhutan | 44.69% | 2022 |
| 43 | Iran, Islamic Rep. | 44.69% | 2022 |
| 44 | Sri Lanka | 44.69% | 2022 |
| 45 | Yemen, Rep. | 44.2% | 2022 |
| 46 | Guinea | 43.96% | 2022 |
| 47 | Cambodia | 42.27% | 2022 |
| 48 | Namibia | 41.4% | 2022 |
| 49 | Syrian Arab Republic | 41.13% | 2022 |
| 50 | Kenya | 40.5% | 2022 |
| 51 | Nepal | 40.06% | 2022 |
| 52 | Botswana | 39.6% | 2022 |
| 53 | Gabon | 38.77% | 2022 |
| 54 | Togo | 38.46% | 2022 |
| 55 | Rwanda | 38.35% | 2022 |
| 56 | Malawi | 37.97% | 2022 |
| 57 | Guatemala | 37.6% | 2022 |
| 58 | Gambia, The | 37.08% | 2022 |
| 59 | Burundi | 36.75% | 2022 |
| 60 | Philippines | 35.87% | 2022 |
| 61 | Maldives | 34.85% | 2022 |
| 62 | Samoa | 34.59% | 2022 |
| 63 | Timor-Leste | 33.92% | 2022 |
| 64 | Ghana | 33.49% | 2022 |
| 65 | Cameroon | 32.67% | 2022 |
| 66 | Viet Nam | 32.5% | 2022 |
| 67 | Honduras | 31.5% | 2018 |
| 68 | Lesotho | 25.55% | 2022 |
| 69 | South Africa | 24.2% | 2022 |
| 70 | Papua New Guinea | 22.27% | 2022 |
| 71 | Brunei Darussalam | 21.6% | 2022 |
| 72 | West Bank and Gaza | 19.5% | 2020 |
| 73 | Indonesia | 19.41% | 2022 |
| 74 | Mongolia | 17.88% | 2022 |
| 75 | Mexico | 17.6% | 2022 |
| 76 | Eswatini | 17.01% | 2022 |
| 77 | Libya | 16.58% | 2022 |
| 78 | El Salvador | 16.48% | 2022 |
| 79 | Panama | 16.3% | 2022 |
| 80 | Suriname | 15.8% | 2022 |
| 81 | Belize | 15.73% | 2022 |
| 82 | Paraguay | 15.1% | 2022 |
| 83 | Brazil | 14.9% | 2022 |
| 84 | Argentina | 14.5% | 2022 |
| 85 | Türkiye | 14.13% | 2022 |
| 86 | Guyana | 11.3% | 2022 |
| 87 | Dominican Republic | 11.25% | 2022 |
| 88 | Cuba | 11.04% | 2022 |
| 89 | Morocco | 10.85% | 2022 |
| 90 | Colombia | 9.7% | 2022 |
| 91 | Fiji | 9.4% | 2022 |
| 92 | Montenegro | 8.77% | 2022 |
| 93 | Trinidad and Tobago | 8.63% | 2022 |
| 94 | Ireland | 8.5% | 2022 |
| 95 | Armenia | 8.39% | 2022 |
| 96 | Turkmenistan | 8.38% | 2022 |
| 97 | Uzbekistan | 7.1% | 2022 |
| 98 | Georgia | 7.08% | 2022 |
| 99 | Moldova | 6.5% | 2018 |
| 100 | Kiribati | 5.93% | 2022 |
| 101 | Nicaragua | 5.52% | 2020 |
| 102 | Lebanon | 4.53% | 2022 |
| 103 | Poland | 4.22% | 2022 |
| 104 | Egypt, Arab Rep. | 3.84% | 2022 |
| 105 | Costa Rica | 3.55% | 2022 |
| 106 | Vanuatu | 3.06% | 2022 |
| 107 | Albania | 2.7% | 2022 |
| 108 | Russian Federation | 2.62% | 2022 |
| 109 | Romania | 2.52% | 2022 |
| 110 | Kyrgyz Republic | 2.44% | 2022 |
| 111 | Marshall Islands | 2.38% | 2022 |
| 112 | Solomon Islands | 1.95% | 2022 |
| 113 | Serbia | 1.42% | 2022 |
| 114 | Uruguay | 1.3% | 2022 |
| 115 | Ukraine | 1.1% | 2018 |
| 116 | Canada | 1.1% | 2022 |
| 117 | Kazakhstan | 0.79% | 2022 |
| 118 | Palau | 0.62% | 2022 |
| 119 | Naoero | 0.6% | 2022 |
| 120 | Latvia | 0.59% | 2022 |
| 121 | Croatia | 0.53% | 2022 |
| 122 | Lithuania | 0.51% | 2022 |
| 123 | St. Lucia | 0.44% | 2022 |
| 124 | Estonia | 0.35% | 2022 |
| 125 | Sweden | 0.34% | 2022 |
| 126 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 0.31% | 2022 |
| 127 | Tonga | 0.31% | 2022 |
| 128 | North Macedonia | 0.28% | 2022 |
| 129 | Cyprus | 0.27% | 2022 |
| 130 | Bulgaria | 0.2% | 2022 |
| 131 | United Kingdom | 0.16% | 2022 |
| 132 | British Virgin Islands | 0.14% | 2022 |
| 133 | United Arab Emirates | 0.11% | 2022 |
| 134 | United States | 0.09% | 2022 |
| 135 | Bermuda | 0.08% | 2022 |
| 136 | Slovak Republic | 0.07% | 2022 |
| 137 | Portugal | 0.06% | 2022 |
| 138 | Malta | 0.04% | 2022 |
| 139 | Australia | 0.04% | 2022 |
| 140 | Czechia | 0.03% | 2022 |
| 141 | Italy | 0.02% | 2022 |
| 142 | Luxembourg | 0.02% | 2022 |
| 143 | Andorra | 0% | 2022 |
| 144 | Aruba | 0% | 2022 |
| 145 | Belgium | 0% | 2022 |
| 146 | Denmark | 0% | 2022 |
| 147 | Finland | 0% | 2022 |
| 148 | France | 0% | 2022 |
| 149 | Germany | 0% | 2022 |
| 150 | Iceland | 0% | 2022 |
| 151 | Kuwait | 0% | 2022 |
| 152 | Monaco | 0% | 2022 |
| 153 | Netherlands | 0% | 2022 |
| 154 | New Zealand | 0% | 2022 |
| 155 | Norway | 0% | 2022 |
| 156 | Oman | 0% | 2022 |
| 157 | Singapore | 0% | 2022 |
| 158 | Switzerland | 0% | 2022 |
Regions and income groups
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- Agricultural land (sq. km)
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- Arable land (hectares)
- Arable land (hectares per person)
- Arable land (% of land area)
- Land under cereal production (hectares)
- Permanent cropland (% of land area)
- Forest area (sq. km)
- Forest area (% of land area)
- Agricultural irrigated land (% of total agricultural land)
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Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators, EN.POP.SLUM.UR.ZS, CC BY 4.0. Original source: Urban Indicators Database, UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), uri: https://data.unhabitat.org/ View on data.worldbank.org; the full definition is in the World Bank's metadata glossary.
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