Slum population in Saint Lucia

0.4% of the urban population of Saint Lucia lived in slums in 2022. The value for 2022 is the lowest in the series, which starts in 2000.

Measure: Urban population living in slums Unit: % of urban population Data: 2000 to 2022 Source: World Bank
Saint Lucia, 2022 0.4% % of urban population
Change from 2020 0percentage points 2020: 0.5%
World, 2022 23.2% Official aggregate
Position in 2022 141st of 181 See the full ranking

Slum population in Saint Lucia over time

View
Places
2 selected
Saint Lucia World ×

% 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 Saint LuciaWorld
2022 0.4% 23.2%
2020 0.5% –
2018 0.5% 19.7%
2016 1.1% –
2014 1.6% –
2012 2.2% –
2010 2.8% –
2008 3.4% –
2006 3.9% –
2004 4.5% –
2002 4.9% –
2000 4.9% –

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 4.9%, the figure has changed by −4.4 percentage points.
  • Among the 181 countries with data for 2022, Saint Lucia has the 141st highest value.
  • The figure for the world in 2022 was 23.2%.

More for Saint Lucia

All statistics for Saint Lucia

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 Saint Lucia
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