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Share of urban populations with convenient access to public transport

What you should know about this indicator

How is this data described by its producer?

Estimated share of urban population who can access a public transport stop within a walking distance of 500 meters (for low capacity public transport systems) and/or 1000 meters (for high capacity public transport systems) along the street network.

Additional information about this data

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) dataset is the primary collection of data tracking progress towards the SDG indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources.

Source
United Nations (2023) – processed by Our World in Data
Last updated
February 14, 2024
Next expected update
June 2026
Date range
2016–2022
Unit
%
Links
https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal/database

Sources and processing

This data is based on the following sources

United Nations (2023)

Data published by

SDG Indicators Database, United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs (2023)

Retrieved on
August 16, 2023
Retrieved from
https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/dataportal/database

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Notes on our processing step for this indicator

For each country the average across all cities available was calculated.

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“Data Page: Share of urban populations with convenient access to public transport”, part of the following publication: Hannah Ritchie, Veronika Samborska, and Max Roser (2024) - “Urbanization”. Data adapted from United Nations (2023). Retrieved from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260511-195424/grapher/share-with-convenient-access-to-public-transport.html [online resource] (archived on May 11, 2026).

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United Nations (2023) – processed by Our World in Data

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United Nations (2023) – processed by Our World in Data. “Share of urban populations with convenient access to public transport” [dataset]. United Nations (2023) [original data]. Retrieved May 11, 2026 from https://archive.ourworldindata.org/20260511-195424/grapher/share-with-convenient-access-to-public-transport.html (archived on May 11, 2026).

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