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

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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Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual