Number of people living in urban 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 andsanitation, sufficient living area, housing durability, and security of tenure.
Urban population living in slums
Country/area | 2000 | 2020 | Absolute Change | Relative Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afghanistan | 7,453,212 | |||
| Albania | 362,319 | 49,354 | -312,965 | -86% |
| Algeria | 4,307,623 | |||
| Angola | 1,597,970 | 13,993,428 | +12,395,458 | +776% |
| Argentina | 6,731,484 | |||
| Armenia | 266,535 | 157,402 | -109,133 | -41% |
| Austria | 217,080 | |||
| Azerbaijan | 2,106,804 | |||
| Bangladesh | 18,507,256 | 32,930,514 | +14,423,258 | +78% |
| Belarus | 1,226,109 | 169,695 | -1,056,414 | -86% |
| Belize | 17,272 | 28,285 | +11,013 | +64% |
| Benin | 1,989,431 | 4,298,743 | +2,309,312 | +116% |
| Bolivia | 3,081,272 | |||
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | 89,917 | |||
| Botswana | 523,939 | 664,042 | +140,103 | +27% |
| Brazil | 49,083,462 | |||
| Burkina Faso | 1,749,456 | 1,745,409 | -4,047 | -0% |
| Burundi | 425,225 | 636,472 | +211,247 | +50% |
| Cambodia | 1,964,180 | 1,609,008 | -355,172 | -18% |
| Cameroon | 4,439,189 | 4,929,127 | +489,938 | +11% |
| Central African Republic | 1,240,356 | |||
| Chad | 1,686,755 | 3,322,021 | +1,635,266 | +97% |
| Chile | 1,950,424 | |||
| Colombia | 6,122,167 | 3,998,871 | -2,123,296 | -35% |
| Comoros | 97,084 | |||
| Congo | 1,624,129 | 1,724,071 | +99,942 | +6% |
| Costa Rica | 295,220 | 144,179 | -151,041 | -51% |
| Cote d'Ivoire | 5,123,312 | 7,955,561 | +2,832,249 | +55% |
| Cuba | 180,216 | 909,510 | +729,294 | +405% |
| Democratic Republic of Congo | 34,328,871 | |||
| Dominican Republic | 1,598,539 | 1,022,102 | -576,437 | -36% |
| East Timor | 140,793 | |||
| Ecuador | 4,392,914 | |||
| Egypt | 13,207,267 | |||
| El Salvador | 755,534 | |||
| Eswatini | 130,772 | 31,159 | -99,613 | -76% |
| Ethiopia | 9,158,587 | 16,592,588 | +7,434,001 | +81% |
| Fiji | 49,236 | |||
| Gabon | 577,837 | |||
| Gambia | 396,463 | 612,331 | +215,868 | +54% |
| Georgia | 291,872 | 156,679 | -135,193 | -46% |
| Ghana | 5,207,606 | 6,123,854 | +916,248 | +18% |
| Guatemala | 2,942,820 | 3,383,001 | +440,181 | +15% |
| Guinea | 1,058,070 | 2,416,358 | +1,358,288 | +128% |
| Guinea-Bissau | 541,077 | |||
| Guyana | 57,279 | 26,258 | -31,021 | -54% |
| Haiti | 1,811,486 | 3,138,836 | +1,327,350 | +73% |
| Honduras | 1,327,615 | |||
| Hungary | 1,015,435 | |||
| India | 161,845,294 | 240,093,492 | +78,248,198 | +48% |
| Indonesia | 31,879,010 | 30,214,487 | -1,664,523 | -5% |
| Iraq | 5,670,329 | 14,731,485 | +9,061,156 | +160% |
| Ireland | 139,559 | 269,734 | +130,175 | +93% |
| Jordan | 1,687,211 | 1,660,987 | -26,224 | -2% |
| Kazakhstan | 2,126,831 | 89,183 | -2,037,648 | -96% |
| Kenya | 3,851,402 | 7,428,013 | +3,576,611 | +93% |
| Kyrgyzstan | 815,380 | 60,475 | -754,905 | -93% |
| Laos | 649,328 | 581,200 | -68,128 | -10% |
| Lebanon | ||||
| Lesotho | 245,718 | 165,837 | -79,881 | -33% |
| Liberia | 1,713,586 | |||
| Madagascar | 4,095,767 | 7,522,034 | +3,426,267 | +84% |
| Malawi | 1,345,930 | 1,694,750 | +348,820 | +26% |
| Maldives | 71,156 | |||
| Mali | 2,749,256 | 3,997,632 | +1,248,376 | +45% |
| Mauritania | 843,109 | 1,425,264 | +582,155 | +69% |
| Mexico | 23,702,496 | 18,016,441 | -5,686,055 | -24% |
| Moldova | 345,581 | |||
| Mongolia | 786,012 | 408,413 | -377,599 | -48% |
| Montenegro | 67,645 | 36,899 | -30,746 | -45% |
| Morocco | 5,026,136 | 2,522,035 | -2,504,101 | -50% |
| Mozambique | 4,752,867 | 6,272,320 | +1,519,453 | +32% |
| Myanmar | 3,598,436 | 9,622,129 | +6,023,693 | +167% |
| Namibia | 250,554 | |||
| Nepal | 2,180,611 | 2,400,884 | +220,273 | +10% |
| Nicaragua | 1,984,513 | |||
| Niger | 1,304,773 | |||
| Nigeria | 32,630,670 | 54,462,239 | +21,831,569 | +67% |
| Pakistan | 36,381,622 | 48,886,541 | +12,504,919 | +34% |
| Palestine | 718,579 | |||
| Panama | 911,407 | |||
| Paraguay | 1,186,158 | 620,067 | -566,091 | -48% |
| Peru | 9,211,393 | |||
| Philippines | 18,357,888 | 19,455,903 | +1,098,015 | +6% |
| Rwanda | 875,623 | 873,456 | -2,167 | -0% |
| Sao Tome and Principe | 85,039 | |||
| Senegal | 2,699,089 | 2,553,452 | -145,637 | -5% |
| Sierra Leone | 1,164,632 | 1,720,114 | +555,482 | +48% |
| South Africa | 7,407,585 | 9,871,468 | +2,463,883 | +33% |
| South Sudan | ||||
| Sudan | 12,156,526 | |||
| Suriname | 23,531 | 63,998 | +40,467 | +172% |
| Tajikistan | 1,003,911 | 457,594 | -546,317 | -54% |
| Tanzania | 6,215,977 | 8,780,673 | +2,564,696 | +41% |
| Thailand | 3,086,106 | 2,503,566 | -582,540 | -19% |
| Togo | 1,171,689 | 1,428,596 | +256,907 | +22% |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 81,603 | |||
| Tunisia | 636,671 | |||
| Turkey | 10,412,030 | |||
| Turkmenistan | 220,925 | 310,472 | +89,547 | +41% |
| Uganda | 2,870,909 | 5,992,019 | +3,121,110 | +109% |
| Ukraine | 1,663,741 | |||
| Uruguay | 712,380 | |||
| Venezuela | 5,974,470 | |||
| Vietnam | 8,522,035 | 2,111,661 | -6,410,374 | -75% |
| Yemen | 3,289,308 | |||
| Zambia | 2,223,744 | 4,104,845 | +1,881,101 | +85% |
| Zimbabwe | 1,104,866 | 1,079,743 | -25,123 | -2% |
| Other | ||||
| Latin America and Caribbean (WB) | 126,398,775 | |||
| Low-income countries | 146,315,531 | |||
| Lower-middle-income countries | 369,439,877 | 531,486,079 | +162,046,202 | +44% |
| Middle-income countries | 775,698,368 | |||
| South Asia (WB) | 223,665,354 | 334,071,930 | +110,406,576 | +49% |
| Sub-Saharan Africa (WB) | 136,698,440 | 244,989,371 | +108,290,931 | +79% |
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