Tanzania: population living in slums

Around 40 percent of Tanzania's urban population lived in slums in 2018, decreasing from 41.7 percent in 2016. In general, the share of the urban population living in poor settlements has been declining in Tanzania. In 2010, 63.5 percent of the urban inhabitants lived in slum households.

Share of the urban population living in slums in Tanzania in selected years from 2010 to 2018

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Release date

April 2022

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Region

Tanzania

Survey time period

2010 to 2018

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"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."

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