Population living in slums (% of urban population) - Country Ranking - Africa

Definition: 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, and durability of housing.

Source: UN HABITAT, retrieved from the United Nation's Millennium Development Goals database. Data are available at : http://mdgs.un.org/

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Central African Republic 95.40 2018
2 Sudan 88.40 2018
3 Chad 86.90 2018
4 São Tomé and Principe 85.70 2018
5 Dem. Rep. Congo 77.50 2018
6 Mozambique 77.20 2018
7 Guinea-Bissau 74.40 2018
8 Mauritania 73.20 2018
9 Somalia 72.10 2018
10 Liberia 70.30 2018
11 Comoros 68.40 2018
12 Malawi 65.10 2018
13 Equatorial Guinea 64.90 2018
14 Djibouti 64.50 2018
15 Ethiopia 64.30 2018
16 Madagascar 61.20 2018
17 Côte d'Ivoire 60.10 2018
18 Sierra Leone 59.10 2018
19 Niger 58.80 2018
19 Benin 58.80 2018
21 Burkina Faso 57.10 2018
22 Zambia 54.60 2018
23 Togo 54.30 2018
24 Nigeria 53.90 2018
25 Lesotho 53.60 2018
26 Guinea 50.10 2018
27 Angola 48.60 2018
28 Uganda 48.30 2018
29 Congo 47.80 2018
30 Burundi 47.70 2018
31 Mali 47.20 2018
32 Kenya 46.50 2018
33 Namibia 42.30 2018
34 Rwanda 42.10 2018
35 Tanzania 40.10 2018
36 Gabon 36.60 2018
37 Cameroon 33.70 2018
38 Zimbabwe 33.50 2018
39 Eswatini 32.10 2018
40 Ghana 30.40 2018
41 Senegal 29.50 2018
42 The Gambia 27.10 2018
43 South Africa 25.60 2018
44 Morocco 9.20 2018
45 Tunisia 8.20 2018
46 Egypt 5.20 2018

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Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual