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Population Estimate

This shows the discrepancy between official RENABAP data and satellite-detected building footprints. RENABAP recorded 1.24M families, but building analysis suggests significantly more households exist within settlement boundaries.

RENABAP official4.15M

Building-based7.59M

People per household

2.8 is the 2022 INDEC national average. 3.35 is derived from RENABAP's 2016–2017 enumeration (526,686 families, 1,763,248 persons). The lower provides a conservative floor; the higher reflects larger household sizes in barrios populares.

Occupation rate

Informal settlements operate at near-full occupancy: land scarcity drives vertical densification and internal rental markets, making vacancy negligible. The 85% floor is a deliberately permissive lower bound. Read more →

Discrepancy by Area

Built by Nissim Lebovits with data from Google-Microsoft-OSM building footprints and RENABAP.