Proportion of Urban Population Living in Slums (2018): 14.4% Most of the slum dwellers in Romania belong to the Roma population, with many of them burning trash for a living. 14.4% of the country’s ...

Governments cannot celebrate the UN World Habitat Day on 4 October while ignoring one billion people living in slums, said Amnesty International. Amnesty International’s Senior Director of ...

We live in an urban century. Already more than 50% of the global population lives in urban areas. The United Nations estimates that by 2030 five billion of the world’s population of eight billion will ...

Proportion of Urban Population Living in Slums (2018): 18% Ukraine was already one of the European countries with the largest slum populations before the Russian invasion of the country in 2022. Since ...