Forget about Utopia or even the dystopian Los Angeles depicted in Blade Runner. The future of the city is a vast Third World slum. This year, the world will pass a milestone so profoundly ...

In the world’s slums, the worst of poverty and environmental degradation collide This article was originally published in OrionOnline. Precarious dwellings in North Sulawasi, Indonesia.

Today, 85% of the world’s slum-dwelling population is concentrated in Asia and Africa, leading many to believe that countries in the developed world have no slums.

The world’s slums are full of … private school kids. VATSYAYANA/AFP In rural India, half of all schoolchildren are in private schools, but it’s not because they’re from wealthy families.

In Kibera, often called Africa's largest urban slum, some roadside vegetable stands are accepting an unconventional form of payment: Bitcoin. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters ...

The World’s Largest Slums – Orangi Town, Pakistan In 2016, a report by the World Economic Forum reported that Dharavi in India was one of the largest slums in the world. Another major slum ...

In 2016, the World Economic Forum reported that Dharavi in Mumbai, India, was one of the largest slums in the world, with an estimated population count of 1 million. The slum’s informal economy ...

A 2020 UN data mapped out three regions with the largest concentration of slums in the world which include Central and Southern Asia, Eastern and South-Eastern Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

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 ...