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01/24/2005:

"One third of the world's urban population lives in a slum"

Late in 2003 the United Nations reported that one billion people-approximately one third of the world's urban dwellers and a sixth of all humanity, live in slums. And it predicted that within 30 years that figure would have doubled to two billion-a third of the current world population.

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