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Label
Inadequate housing
Better Percentage
lower is better
Better D Index
lower is better
Indicator Group
Basic resources
Descriptive label
the household lives in inadequate housing (IFPRI definition)
Sri Lanka2025BRIGHTInadequateHousing
Inadequate housing measures the proportion of urban households who are living in dwellings that have inadequate conditions based on several criteria, namely accces to basic drinking water, access to improved sanitation, finished and durable or permanent materials used in the construction of floors, wallks and roofs and whether the household is overcrowded with more than 3 people per room within the dwelling. It relates closely to SDG 11.1.1 which measures the share of slum population in urban areas.