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Population living in slums (% of urban population)

Bangladesh · 2000–2022 · Source: Urban Indicators Database, UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

Latest (2022)51.51% of urban population
Earliest (2000)58.31
Change since 2000−6.8
Source: Urban Indicators Database, UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), via World Bank WDI (EN.POP.SLUM.UR.ZS)
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What you should know

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.

Source
Urban Indicators Database, UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), via World Bank WDI (EN.POP.SLUM.UR.ZS)
Data updated
October 24, 2026 · refreshed monthly
Date range
2000–2022 (12 data points)
Unit
% of urban population
World Bank code
EN.POP.SLUM.UR.ZS
Licence
CC BY 4.0

How to cite this data

Urban Indicators Database, UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), via World Bank WDI (EN.POP.SLUM.UR.ZS). Processed by DEEPLAB, https://de3plab.org/data-urban-slum-population (data updated October 24, 2026).

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Year% of urban population
202251.51
202051.87
201852.51
201653.16
201453.8
201254.45
201055.09
200855.73
200656.38
200457.02
200257.67
200058.31