Mapping changes in housing in sub-Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2015

Access to adequate housing is a fundamental human right, essential to human security, nutrition and health, and a core objective of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 1 , 2 . Globally, the housing need is most acute in Africa, where the population will more than double by 2050. However...

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Published in:Nature (London) Vol. 568; no. 7752; pp. 391 - 394
Main Authors: Tusting, Lucy S., Bisanzio, Donal, Alabaster, Graham, Cameron, Ewan, Cibulskis, Richard, Davies, Michael, Flaxman, Seth, Gibson, Harry S., Knudsen, Jakob, Mbogo, Charles, Okumu, Fredros O., von Seidlein, Lorenz, Weiss, Daniel J., Lindsay, Steve W., Gething, Peter W., Bhatt, Samir
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.04.2019
Nature Publishing Group
Subjects:
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Affordable housing
Africa South of the Sahara
Africans
Confidence intervals
Economic aspects
Educational Status
Family Characteristics
Flooring
Geographic Mapping
Geostatistics
Ghettos
Houses
Housing
Housing - economics
Housing - statistics & numerical data
Housing - supply & distribution
Housing conditions
Housing development
Human rights
Human security
Humanities and Social Sciences
Letter
Mapping
Metropolitan areas
multidisciplinary
Nutrition
Planning
Population
Principal components analysis
Rural areas
Rural housing
Sanitation
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Socioeconomic Factors
Sustainable development
Sustainable Development - economics
Urban areas
Urban population
Urban populations
Water
Water resource management
Africa South of the Sahara
Sub-Saharan Africa
Africa
ISSN:0028-0836, 1476-4687, 1476-4687
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Summary:Access to adequate housing is a fundamental human right, essential to human security, nutrition and health, and a core objective of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals 1 , 2 . Globally, the housing need is most acute in Africa, where the population will more than double by 2050. However, existing data on housing quality across Africa are limited primarily to urban areas and are mostly recorded at the national level. Here we quantify changes in housing in sub-Saharan Africa from 2000 to 2015 by combining national survey data within a geostatistical framework. We show a marked transformation of housing in urban and rural sub-Saharan Africa between 2000 and 2015, with the prevalence of improved housing (with improved water and sanitation, sufficient living area and durable construction) doubling from 11% (95% confidence interval, 10–12%) to 23% (21–25%). However, 53 (50–57) million urban Africans (47% (44–50%) of the urban population analysed) were living in unimproved housing in 2015. We provide high-resolution, standardized estimates of housing conditions across sub-Saharan Africa. Our maps provide a baseline for measuring change and a mechanism to guide interventions during the era of the Sustainable Development Goals. The prevalence of improved housing (with improved drinking water and sanitation, sufficient living area and durable construction) in urban and rural sub-Saharan Africa doubled between 2000 and 2015.
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ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/s41586-019-1050-5