[oc] Over 1 Billion People Live in Slums

    by Notsame83

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    1. Designer-Strength7 on

      And it is precisely these countries that have the highest birth rates per capita. Don’t feed if you cannot breed …

    2. cymbal-using-animal on

      If anyone is curious (like I was), here’s the definition of “slum” that seems to have been used:

      >Slums – An expert group meeting was convened in 2002 by UN-Habitat, the United Nations Statistics Division and the Cities Alliance to agree on an operational definition for slums to be used for measuring the indicator of MDG 7 Target 7.D. The agreed definition classified a ‘slum household’ as one in which the inhabitants suffer one or more of the following ‘household deprivations’: 1. Lack of access to improved water source, 2. Lack of access to improved sanitation facilities, 3. Lack of sufficient living area, 4. Lack of housing durability and, 5. Lack of security of tenure.

      [Source](https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/metadata/files/Metadata-11-01-01.pdf)

    3. Hard to believe the US isn’t on the map. Between the corps the oligarchs and the korupt mfr govt. they have stripped and stolen anything not nailed down and left a hellscape / urban wasteland from what I’ve seen.

    4. Is Rural living considered slums too? It states urban population living in slums but i highly doubt the accuracy of this as it will probably close to impossible to have an accurate data of these countries. If in fact this is accurate, I’ll be damned this is crazy.

    5. Informal housing and uncontrolled development in the global south is and will be keep being one of the most concerning problems as a society.

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