Multiple choice

What percentage of Indian population resided in slums according to the UN-HABITAT report - 'State of the World Cities 2010/2011: Bridging the Urban Divide' - released in 2010?

  1. 11%

  2. 14.5%

  3. 19.2%

  4. 23.6%

  5. 28.1%
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Explanation

Governments across the world have done well collectively to lift 227 million people out of slum conditions, surpassing the Millennium Development target by 2.2 times, says the UN-HABITAT report on the 'State of the World Cities 2010/2011: Bridging the Urban Divide' released on March 18, 2010.

The biennial report for 2010 appreciates China and India for bettering the lot of urban slum-dwellers since 2000. The proportion of people living in slum conditions came down from 37.3 per cent in 2000 to about 28.2 per cent in 2010 in China and from 41.5 per cent in 1990 to 28.1 per cent in 2010 in India.

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