Before you play
What This Slum Figure Means
This game compares the share of urban population living in slums.
- The figure is about housing conditions and access to basic services in urban areas, not a census of one visible neighborhood.
- It is a proportion of city life, not a morality tale about migration.
- Urban growth can be real progress and still be profoundly unequal in where it lets people land.
City success stories usually crop the parts that do not fit the brochure.