World Bank · Poverty

Cameroon: Population living in slums

32.67percent · 2022-47.4% since 2002

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. Annual figures for Cameroon from 2000 to 2022.

20002022

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
202232.672
202032.672
201835.941
201639.21
201442.479
201245.749
201049.018
200852.287
200655.556
200458.825
200262.095
200065.364

Source

Published by World Bank, produced by UN-Habitat. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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World Bank (2026). Population living in slums. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-population-living-in-slums (accessed 2026-11-15). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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