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Urban population living in areas where elevation is below 5 meters (% of total population)
Jul 24, 2023 · As of 2020, 49 percent of the Indian urban population lived in slums. There was a downward trend in the share of slum dwellings as a share of the urban population since 2000. A slum is...
Around a quarter of the world’s urban population lives in slums. And this figure is rising fast. The number of slum dwellers in developing countries increased from 689 million in 1990 to 880 million in 2014, according to the United Nations World Cities Report 2016.
Jan 9, 2018 · In 2011, 200 million people in urban Indian households were considered to live in slums 5, of which over a third were in million-plus cities of India. In this paper, we present granular...
- Debraj Roy, Debraj Roy, Bharath Palavalli, Niveditha Menon, Robin King, Robin King, Karin Pfeffer, M...
- 2018
Dec 28, 2019 · Population living in slums (% of urban population) in India was 35.20 as of 2018. Its highest value over the past 28 years was 54.90 in 1990, while its lowest value was 24.00 in 2014. Definition: Population living in slums is the proportion of the urban population living in slum households.
Feb 11, 2019 · Maharashtra had a population of 1.18 crore living in slums in 2011, followed by Andhra Pradesh at nearly 1.02 crore. At 2.20 crore, these two states accounted for more than one-third of India’s 6.55 crore slum population (2011 Census).
The 2011 Census of India estimated that 65 million people lived in around 108,000 slums across India, of which the state of Maharashtra had the largest number of slums, at around 21,000. [3]
