More than half of the world's population will be living in urban areas by 2008.

     By 2030, it is expected that 60% of the world population will live in urban areas.

     Almost 180,000 people are added to the urban population each day.

     It is estimated that there are almost a billion poor people in the world, of this over 750 million live in urban areas without adequate shelter and basic services.

     1/3 of people in developing countries living in cities, live in slum/squatter settlements.

     Over 1/2 the people in the world live on less than $2 per day.