Proportion of Urban Population Living in Slums (2018): 3.5% In 2018, Belize had an urban population of 174,000. In the country, only 6,000 people lived in slums, which is the second-lowest absolute ...

Urban Survivors, a new multimedia project, seeks to highlight the urgent humanitarian crisis and medical needs of people living in slums. Rapid urbanization has brought a sharp increase in the number ...

Urban Development Minister Ashish Sood announces commitment to providing dignified housing for Delhi's slum residents.

Living in Nairobi’s slums is tough – residents are 35% more likely to suffer from high blood pressure than those in rural areas Hypertension, commonly referred to as high blood pressure, is a ...

Why do slums co-exist with affluent neighbourhoods? Mukuru with South B, Kangemi with Loresho, Githogori with Runda, Mathare with Muthaiga, Deep Sea with Spring Valley? Other towns outside Nairobi ...

Tenants in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, receive drastically inferior household services and pay more rent compared to those in its formal settlements, according to new research from the School of ...

A division bench of justices G S Kulkarni and Aarti Sathe observed in their order, “The municipal commissioner and officers below him cannot neglect and/ or breach such basic rights of citizens, who ...

In this article, we take a look at the 20 countries with the lowest slum population in the world. If you would like to skip our detailed analysis of slum populations, you can directly go to 5 ...

Shukri F. Mohamed does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...