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City location
Site and situation
City importance
The regional, national and international influence of the urban centre.
Natural increase
The growth rate of a population; the difference between birthrate and death rate
Migration
Movement of people from one place to another.
Social opportunities
Chances for people to improve their quality of life, for instance access to education and health care.
Access to health care
Access to hospitals, doctors, essential medicine and preventative health care
Access to education
Percentage of people who have a reasonable opportunity to go to school
Access to resources
The indicator of availability of material supplies to a population including water and energy.
Economic opportunities
Chances for people to improve their standard of living through employment.
Industrial areas
Areas reserved for manufacturing of goods
Slums
Poor, run-down urban areas.
Squatter settlement
An area within a city in an LIC in which people illegally establish residences on land they do not own or rent and erect homemade structures.
Informal economy
Economic activity that is neither taxed nor monitored by a government; and is not included in that government's Gross National Product; as opposed to a formal economy.
Crime
An act against the law.
Inadequate waste disposal
In squatter settlements there will be no means of getting rid of rubbish which will then pollute the environment.
Improper sanitation
Slum settlements have no access to toilets or running water.
Open sewers
Human waste is often left in gutters on the street attracting infestation by vermin and disease carrying insects.
Traffic congestion
Heavy traffic making it difficult to move around a town or city.
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