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
| 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
