Close to 900 million people across the Global South live in densely packed urban slums, which often sit in floodplains. A new study finds that one in three slum dwellers is at risk of "disastrous" ...

As the United Nations prepares a 20-year plan to cope with the challenges of booming urbanization, residents of the world's five biggest slums are battling to carve out a place in the cities of ...

The Sad Future of the World's Growing Slums A U.N. agency predicts the number of people living in slums could rise to three billion by the year 2050. Commentator Siddhartha Mitter, ...

1. South Sudan. Total Urban Population (2016): 2,112,741 Percentage of Urban Population living in Slums (2016): 94% South Sudan is currently home to the world’s largest slum population, with 94% ...

Nicholas D. Kristof writes about a Kenyan slum that has something to teach the world (Giles Clarke | The New York Times) Kibera slum residents attend free classes in a Shofco-managed community ...

AMERICUS, Ga. (AP) - Habitat for Humanity has built a Third World slum in its own back yard as a sort of theme park of poverty that it hopes will motivate visitors to contribute to efforts to ...

The G20 summit, the biggest ever gathering of world leaders in the Indian capital, will be attended by U.S. President Joe Biden, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin ...

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 slum population in the world.