Urban Slum Child

Young girl in a Kathmandu slum village. In a 2003 global assessment by UN HABITAT, it was concluded that 924 million people live in slums. In the least developed countries, 78 per cent of the urban population live in slums whereas 6 per cent of the urban population in the developed countries live in slum-like conditions, the assessment finds
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