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16 Urban Development

AG.LND.EL5M.UR.K2 - Urban land area where elevation is below 5 meters (sq. km)

Source 02 World Development Indicators

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Urban land area below 5m is the total urban land area in square kilometers where the elevation is 5 meters or less.

Source Organization Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates, Version 3, Center For International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) - Columbia University, uri: https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/catalog/sedac-cies

AG.LND.EL5M.UR.ZS - Urban land area where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total land area)

Source 02 World Development Indicators

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Urban land area below 5m is the percentage of total land where the urban land elevation is 5 meters or less.

Source Organization Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates, Version 3, Center For International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) - Columbia University, uri: https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/catalog/sedac-cies

AG.LND.TOTL.UR.K2 - Urban land area (sq. km)

Source 02 World Development Indicators

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Urban land area in square kilometers, based on a combination of population counts (persons), settlement points, and the presence of nighttime lights. Areas are defined as urban where contiguous lighted cells from the nighttime lights or approx

Source Organization Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates, Version 2, Center For International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) - Columbia University, uri: https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/catalog/sedac-cies

EG.ELC.ACCS.UR.ZS - Access to electricity, urban (% of urban population)

Source 02 World Development Indicators

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Access to electricity, urban is the percentage of urban population with access to electricity.

Source Organization SDG 7.1.1 Electrification Dataset, World Bank (WB), uri: https://trackingsdg7.esmap.org/downloads, note: Data is downloaded from ESMAP website. Data is released when a new Tracking SDG7 report is released., publisher: World Bank (WB), date acc

EG.NSF.ACCS.UR.ZS - Access to non-solid fuel, urban (% of urban population)

Source 57 WDI Database Archives

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Access to non-solid fuel, urban is the percentage of urban population with access to non-solid fuel.

Source Organization World Bank, Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) database from WHO Global Household Energy database.

EN.ATM.PM25.MC.M3 - PM2.5 air pollution, mean annual exposure (micrograms per cubic meter)

Source 02 World Development Indicators

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Population-weighted exposure to ambient PM2.5 pollution is defined as the average level of exposure of a nation's population to concentrations of suspended particles measuring less than 2.5 microns in aerodynamic diameter, which are capable of

Source Organization Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 (GBD 2021) Air Pollution Exposure Estimates 1990-2021, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), uri: https://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/ihme-data/gbd-2021-air-pollution-exposure-estimates-1990-202

EN.ATM.PM25.MC.ZS - PM2.5 air pollution, population exposed to levels exceeding WHO guideline value (% of total)

Source 02 World Development Indicators

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Percent of population exposed to ambient concentrations of PM2.5 that exceed the WHO guideline value is defined as the portion of a country’s population living in places where mean annual concentrations of PM2.5 are greater than 10 microgram

Source Organization Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (GBD 2017), Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), uri: https://ghdx.healthdata.org/gbd-2017, publisher: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), date published: 202112

EN.POP.DNST - Population density (people per sq. km of land area)

Source 02 World Development Indicators

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Population density is midyear population divided by land area in square kilometers. Population is based on the de facto definition of population, which counts all residents regardless of legal status or citizenship--except for refugees not per

Source Organization FAO population estimates, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO);

EN.POP.EL5M.UR.ZS - Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total population)

Source 02 World Development Indicators

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Urban population below 5m is the percentage of the total population, living in areas where the elevation is 5 meters or less.

Source Organization Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates, Version 3, Center For International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) - Columbia University, uri: https://doi.org/10.7927/d1x1-d702, publisher: NASA Ear

EN.POP.SLUM.UR.ZS - Population living in slums (% of urban population)

Source 02 World Development Indicators

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes 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 improve

Source Organization Urban Indicators Database, UN Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), uri: https://data.unhabitat.org/

EN.URB.LCTY - Population in largest city

Source 02 World Development Indicators

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Population in largest city is the urban population living in the country's largest metropolitan area.

Source Organization World Urbanization Prospects 2018, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wup/, publisher: UN Population Division, date published: 2018

EN.URB.LCTY.UR.ZS - Population in the largest city (% of urban population)

Source 02 World Development Indicators

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Population in largest city is the percentage of a country's urban population living in that country's largest metropolitan area.

Source Organization World Urbanization Prospects 2018, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wup/, publisher: UN Population Division, date published: 2018

EN.URB.MCTY - Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million

Source 02 World Development Indicators

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Population in urban agglomerations of more than one million is the country's population living in metropolitan areas that in 2018 had a population of more than one million people.

Source Organization World Urbanization Prospects 2018, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wup/, publisher: UN Population Division, date published: 2018

EN.URB.MCTY.TL.ZS - Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million (% of total population)

Source 02 World Development Indicators

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Population in urban agglomerations of more than one million is the percentage of a country's population living in metropolitan areas that in 2018 had a population of more than one million people.

Source Organization World Urbanization Prospects 2018, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wup/, publisher: UN Population Division, date published: 2018

EP.PMP.DESL.CD - Pump price for diesel fuel (US$ per liter)

Source 57 WDI Database Archives

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Fuel prices refer to the pump prices of the most widely sold grade of diesel fuel. Prices have been converted from the local currency to U.S. dollars.

Source Organization German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ).

EP.PMP.SGAS.CD - Pump price for gasoline (US$ per liter)

Source 57 WDI Database Archives

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Fuel prices refer to the pump prices of the most widely sold grade of gasoline. Prices have been converted from the local currency to U.S. dollars.

Source Organization German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ).

IS.VEH.NVEH.P3 - Motor vehicles (per 1,000 people)

Source 11 Africa Development Indicators

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Motor vehicles include cars, buses, and freight vehicles but do not include two-wheelers. Population refers to midyear population in the year for which data are available.

Source Organization International Road Federation, World Road Statistics and data files.

IS.VEH.PCAR.P3 - Passenger cars (per 1,000 people)

Source 11 Africa Development Indicators

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Passenger cars refer to road motor vehicles, other than two-wheelers, intended for the carriage of passengers and designed to seat no more than nine people (including the driver).

Source Organization International Road Federation, World Road Statistics and data files.

IS.VEH.ROAD.K1 - Vehicles (per km of road)

Source 11 Africa Development Indicators

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Vehicles per kilometer of road include cars, buses, and freight vehicles but do not include two-wheelers. Roads refer to motorways, highways, main or national roads, secondary or regional roads, and other roads. A motorway is a road specially

Source Organization International Road Federation, World Road Statistics and data files.

SP.URB.GROW - Urban population growth (annual %)

Source 40 Population estimates and projections

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Annual urban population growth rate for year t is the exponential rate of growth of midyear urban population from year t-1 to t, expressed as a percentage. Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statisti

Source Organization World Urbanization Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wup/, note: World Bank staff estimates based on the United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects, National definitions, publisher: UN Popula

SP.URB.TOTL - Urban population

Source 40 Population estimates and projections

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. It is calculated using World Bank population estimates and urban ratios from the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects. Aggregation of ur

Source Organization World Urbanization Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wup/, note: World Bank staff estimates based on the United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects, National definitions, publisher: UN Popula

SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS - Urban population (% of total population)

Source 40 Population estimates and projections

Topics 16 Urban Development

Source Notes Urban population refers to people living in urban areas as defined by national statistical offices. The data are collected and smoothed by United Nations Population Division.

Source Organization World Urbanization Prospects, United Nations (UN), uri: https://population.un.org/wup/, note: United Nations Population Division's World Urbanization Prospects, National definitions, publisher: UN Population Division

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