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 ...

In the past two years, the number of people living in slums worldwide has grown by 50 million. That's according to the United Nations Habitat Agency. The agency presented its findings at its annual ...

In the 30 years that Josephine Muthoni has lived in Nairobi's Mukuru slum, she has never had a steady supply of clean water.

It is named after a massive nearby rubbish dump, but people are queuing up to move into Abuja's Big Bola slum as rents ...

The United Nations estimates that more than 1 billion people live in slums around the world. Yet the geography of slum living has long been poorly defined. From the favelas of Brazil to shack ...

Nairobi, Kenya • Here in the Kibera slum, life sometimes seems a free-for-all. Residents steal electricity by tapping into overhead lines, children walk barefoot through alleys trickling with sewage, ...

The neighborhood of Cota 905 in Caracas shares a name with the gang that runs it with impunity - Copyright AFP Yuri CORTEZ The neighborhood of Cota 905 in Caracas ...

American entrepreneur and business owner Robert Kiyosaki said in an interview, "America is going to be the poorest country in the world, starting now." Kiyosaki, known for his book "Rich Dad Poor Dad, ...

Mumbai, India (CNN) — When Masoom Ali Shaikh arrived in Mumbai in 1974 as a young man from northern India, the patch of land where he set up shop was “just a creek with no proper road and garbage all ...

According to a report by CGTN News, Kabul alone has around 30 slums, which house almost 75% of the capital city’s population. In total, approximately 7.4 million urban citizens in Afghanistan live in ...