While urban slums are primarily a challenge for the developing world, areas of concentrated urban poverty also exist in the developed world in places such as many of the larger cities in the United States. Some regions have more people living in urban slums than other regions, as illustrated by FIGURE 5 .
FIGURE5 Urban population living in slums, 2018
ARCTIC OCEAN
PACIFIC
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
OCEAN
Urban slum population, 2014
INDIAN
≤ 200 million ≤ 150 million ≤ 100 million ≤ 50 million ≤ 25 million ≤ 10 million
OCEAN
≤ 5 million ≤ 1 million No data
0 2000 4000 km
Source: Based on data from Urban population living in slums, 2014. Our World in Data. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Map redrawn by Spatial Vision. The images shown in FIGURE6 are examples of such slums from around the world.
SkillBuilder discussion Concluding and decision-making 1. Suggest why many developing nations have slums. 2. With a partner, make a list of the negatives associated with living in a slum. 3. Propose what can be done to reduce the number of people living in slums globally.
FIGURE6 Urban slums around the world: (a) Brazilian favela, (b) South African shantytown, (c) Indian slum, (d) Slovakian ghetto
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