According to Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums, nearly 80% of Nigeria's urban population, or some 41.6 million people, live in slums. The comparable numbers in India are 56% and 158.4 million.

A homeless encampment is seen on July 11, 2023, in Phoenix. An estimated 89% of Americans will live in urban areas by 2050, adding to the potential for a growing slum economy across the United States.

When residents of a slum cluster in New Delhi's Janta Camp area heard that the G20 Summit was to be held in the Indian capital, barely 500 metres from their homes, they expected it would benefit ...

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

Dhaka, April 1 -- While millions in Bangladesh celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr with feasts, new clothes, and family gatherings the slum dwellers of Dhaka face a different reality.

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 around,” he said.

Several canoes paddle toward Makoko, a vast floating slum built on stilts in the lagoon at one end of Nigeria’s economic hub of Lagos. Stay up to date with notifications from The Independent.

Total Urban Population (2020): 10,142,913 Percentage of Urban Population living in Slums (2020): 73%. According to a report by CGTN News, Kabul alone has around 30 slums, which house almost 75% of ...