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This page provides links on urban indicators.
This includes statistics and data of particular
issues, such as household access to water, in urban
areas around the world. For explanations and
definitions of urban indicators and urban
agricultural terminology click here.
 The Global
Urban Observatory
(GUO)
addresses the urgent need to improve the world-wide
base of urban knowledge by helping Governments,
local authorities and organizations of the civil
society develop and apply policy-oriented urban
indicators, statistics and other urban information.
The GUO was established by UN-HABITAT in response to
a decision of the United Nations Commission on Human
Settlements, which called for a mechanism to monitor
global progress in implementing the Habitat Agenda
and to monitor and evaluate global urban conditions
and trends.
UN-HABITAT has developed a household level definition of a slum
household in order to be able to use existing
household level surveys and censuses to identify
slum dwellers among the urban population. A slum
household is a household that lacks any one of the
following five elements: Access to improved water,
Access to improved sanitation, Security of tenure,
Durability of housing, Sufficient living area.
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