Slum population in European Union

0.5% of the urban population of the European Union lived in slums in 2022.

Measure: Urban population living in slums Unit: % of urban population Data: 2000 to 2022 Source: World Bank
European Union is a group: European Union, 27 member states (composition from February 2020). The value is the aggregate published by World Bank, not an average calculated on this site.
European Union, 2022 0.5% % of urban population
Change from 2020 0percentage points 2020: 0.5%
World, 2022 23.2% Official aggregate

Slum population in European Union over time

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% of urban population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Urban population living in slums (% of urban population), 2000 to 2022
Period European UnionWorld
2022 0.5% 23.2%
2020 0.5% –
2018 0.5% 19.7%
2016 0.7% –
2014 0.4% –
2012 0.4% –
2010 0.5% –
2008 0.6% –
2006 0.7% –
2004 0.8% –
2002 0.9% –
2000 0.8% –

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • The previous available figure was 0.5% in 2020, a change of 0 percentage points.
  • Since 2002, when it was 0.9%, the figure has changed by −0.4 percentage points.
  • The figure for the world in 2022 was 23.2%.

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Source and dates

Original producer
UN-Habitat, Urban Indicators Database
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
EN.POP.SLUM.UR.ZS · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2000 to 2022 for European Union
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: UN-Habitat, Urban Indicators Database