Slum Dwellers Increased

The United Nations Habitat is an agency specialized in working out policies with the government to move people out of slum areas to improved living conditions. This effort is primarily focused on the developing countries.

The UN-Habitat reports that the number of slum dwellers have increased in the 10 years to a total of 827.6 million worldwide. "The progress made on the slum target has not been enough to counter the growth of informal settlements in the developed world," UN-Habitat said in its annual report. The report also states that the efforts are not adequate to eliminate the recurring problem.

The UN-Habitat have done their best and with their efforts have resulted people moving out of the slums but there have been new slum dwellers that appeared sometime during 2000 to 2010. There have been as estimation of 227 million that were moved out of the slums thanks to this movement and yet, more slum dwellers are at rise.

Some of the nations that have experienced reduce in their slum settlements are India, China and Brazil with 59.7 million, 65.3 and 10.4 million respectively. Other countries are inclusive of Indonesia and Vietnam. African nations that did well were Morocco and Egypt. These reductions also happened in Latin America, Argentina, Colombia and Brazil, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua and Peru.

Even though the UN and the government have tried their best in helping the unfortunate achieving better living opportunities, more and more slum dwellers are recurring. This may require extra efforts by the UN and the government. Awareness of this oppressing problem must also be done in creating more forces to help out.