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Map of locations of slum in Nairobi
Slums in Nairobi
Many shacks clustered together and photographed from the air
An aerial view of Kibera

There are many slums in Kenya, for example in the cities of Nairobi and Mombasa. According to UN DESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs), 55 per cent of Kenya's urban population were slum inhabitants in 2007.[1] In 2019, around two million inhabitants of Nairobi lived in informal settlements.[2]

  1. ^ Gulyani, Sumila; Bassett, Ellen M.; Talukdar, Debabrata (2012). "Living Conditions, Rents, and Their Determinants in the Slums of Nairobi and Dakar". Land Economics. 88 (2): 251–274. doi:10.3368/le.88.2.251. ISSN 0023-7639. JSTOR 23272581. S2CID 154634824.
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