Urban indicators for Guatemala's cities, 1990-2024 (UN-Habitat)
Share of the urban population living in slums or informal settlements, population with convenient access to public transport, share of built-up area that is public open space and green area per person, for the country and for cities such as Guatemala City, Quetzaltenango, Escuintla, Cobán and Puerto Barrios, from 1990 to 2024, from UN-Habitat's urban indicators database (distributed by HDX).
- data points
- 157
- series
- 51
- Period
- 1990–2024
- Source
- UN-Habitat, via HDX
- Licence
- use allowed
- Attribution the licence asks for
- Courtesy credit (not required): UN-Habitat Urban Indicators Database, via HDX (ODC PDDL).
- Licence read on
- Nov 8, 2026
- Frequencies
- Annual: 51 series
- Nature of the data
- Published: 99 data points · Estimated: 58 data points
- Retrieved
- Nov 7, 2026
- Data state
- Advance Guatemala keeps the data point as the source published it: it does not compare it with other sources or apply the tolerance bands it uses for the site's verified figures.
Dimensions
How the source classifies its series, with the most frequent values first.
City
- Chimaltenango
- Ciudad de Guatemala (Guatemala City)
- Cobán
- Escuintla
- Huehuetenango
- Mazatenango
- Puerto Barrios
- Quetzaltenango
Indicator
- Average share of green area in city/urban area 1990 (%)
- Average share of urban population with convenient access to open public spaces (%) [b]
- Green area per capita 1990 (m2/person)
- Share of urban population with convenient access to public transport (%)
- Average share of the built-up area of cities that is open space for public use for all (%) [a]
- Proportion of urban population living in slums or informal settlements (%) (a)
- Urban population living in slums or informal settlements (thousands)
Notes
These are SDG target 11 indicators calculated by UN-Habitat; some values are estimates.
Series
Every series in the dataset. Open one to see its data points, each with its source link.