Urban infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean: public policy priorities

Jaitman, Laura

doi:10.1007/s40503-015-0027-5

Latin American Economic Review

Table 5 Urban infrastructure in Latin America

From: Urban infrastructure in Latin America and the Caribbean: public policy priorities

	Share of housing owners		Number of rooms		Persons per room		Share of poor dwellings		Share of dwellings with low-quality materials
	Poorest 20 %	Mean	Poorest 20 %	Mean	Poorest 20 %	Mean	Poorest 20 %	Mean	Poorest 20 %	Mean
Latin America
Argentina
2003-II	54.4	66.4	2.5	2.9	2.1	1.4
2012-I	54.3	64	2.6	2.9	1.9	1.2	4.3	1.7	4.4	1.4
Bolivia
2000	48.4	52.1	2.1	2.7	2.7	2.2	32.8	27	67.2	44.9
2011	46.3	53.6	2.2	2.8	2.4	1.8	36.8	30.9	46.6	28.3
Brazil
2006	34.4	49.5	2.8	3.4	1.7	1.3	7	2.9	68.7	39.2
2011	30.4	44.2	2.8	3.3	1.7	1.2	7.4	6.1	71.2	35.5
Costa Rica
2001	71.2	75	4.3	5	1	0.8	2.6	0.7	9.6	2.8
2009	61.4	71.1	4.4	5.2	0.9	0.7	1.7	0.5	7.9	2.9
Dominican Republic
2008	54.8	58.4	3	3.5	1.6	1.1	0.2	0.5	30.5	13.6
2011	53.1	56.5	3.1	3.4	1.6	1.1	0.1	1.5	26.4	11.8
Ecuador
2003	71.1	69.4	2.5	3.1	2.3	1.7			33.2	21.1
2011	59	61.8	4.9	5.4	0.8	0.7	16.8	8.7	18	9.5
El Salvador
2000	44.5	64.2	1.8	2.7	2.9	2	17.2	9.2	43.4	19.2
2010	54.8	64.6	1.9	2.8	2.8	1.7	9.4	5.3	37.8	15.4
Guatemala
2000	41.5	60.7	1.6	2.7	3.5	2.5	15.3	10	56.8	36.6
2011	57.2	64.9	1.8	2.5	3.4	2.3	10	9.5	51.9	26.9
Honduras
2001	62	61.7	3.3	4.4	2.3	1.5	7.5	10.1	7.5	2.3
2011	61.5	61.2	4	4.7	1.5	1.2	6.6	7.5	4.8	2.2
Mexico
2000	65	71	3.8	5	1.4	0.9	0.2	0.2	47.8	24.9
2010	45.3	65.6	4.1	5	1.1	0.8	0.4	0.3	40.8	22
Nicaragua
2001	71.3	76.7	1.9	2.3	4.2	3	14	6.5	24.8	10.5
2009	73.6	80.9	1.9	2.6	3.7	2.2	5.9	2.1	23	10.5
Panama
2007	54	75
2012	62.2	79
Paraguay
2001	67.2	71.7	2.4	3.4	2.4	1.7	21.1	9.7	1.9	0.7
2011	78.2	78.4	2.9	3.6	1.6	1.3	11.2	4.6	0.6	0.4
Peru
2003	63	69.3	2.8	3.5	2.6	1.6	5.7	7.4	22.7	13.1
2011	54.6	62.5	2.7	3.7	1.9	1.3	12.2	7.5	20.2	11.9
Uruguay
2006	30.9	61.3	2.8	3.3	1.8	1	0.8	0.3	4.5	1.4
2011	21.7	52.7	3	3.5	1.5	0.9	0.3	0.1	2.6	0.7
Venezuela
2000	72.7	73.2	3.6	3.9	1.6	1.3	6.9	2.6	6.9	2.9
2011	79.8	81.7	3.1	3.5	1.9	1.4	12	5.5	15.3	7.1
The Caribbean
Bahamas
2001	53.9	57.7	3.9	4.1	1.2	1
Guyana
1992–1993	35	40.4	4.3	4.4	1.8	1.1			5	0.3
Haiti
2001	38.9	46	2.8	3.1	2.2	1.8	16	8.6	27.4	14.1
Jamaica
2002	58	52.5					1.6	1.3	3	4.5
Suriname
1999	67.3	62.4	2.9	3	1.5	1.4	33.3	43.4

Source Socio-Economic Database for Latin America and the Caribbean, Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies (Universidad Nacional de la Plata) and the World Bank

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