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This is a list of slums. A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between 1990 and 2005.[1] However, due to rising population, and the rise especially in urban populations, the number of slum dwellers is rising. One billion people worldwide live in slums[2] and the figure is projected to grow to 2 billion by 2030.[3]
- ^ United Nations, 2007. The Millennium Development Goals Report. Archived 2017-07-13 at the Wayback Machine p. 26
- ^ "Review of Mike Davis' 'Planet of Slums'". The Struggle for the City. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
- ^ Slum Dwellers to double by 2030 Archived 2013-03-17 at the Wayback Machine UN-HABITAT report, April 2007.