Sunday, 14 July 2013

Slum Population

Slum Population

The United Nation defines Slum as “is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security”. There are 1 billion slum populations in the world and the figure will double up to 2 Billion by 2030. Slum population rate worldwide is decreasing from 47% to 37% from 1990-2005 but overall population is increasing thus number of slum population is swelling.