I doubt this is the highest number in the world. This 199.5 million African’s living in slums does not add up…Africans population is around 1 billion, lower than India’s population…and the last time I checked, about 42% of Indian’s live below the poverty line. That’s well over 400 million people in India. My guess is more than half of these people probably live in slums. non-urban Africans mostly live in villages (no electricity and tap water) that are not slums. In fact, the village where I grew up probably has the cleanest and safest drinking water from the rivers flowing from the mountains than tap water in most cities in America. No one drinks directly from the taps here, why?
What’s UN’s definition of a slum?

It’s strange why all of a sudden there’re good reports coming from the UN, IMF, World Economic Forum, etc on Africa. After the whole world couldn’t conitnue down the path of inflated economies, Africa with no meaningful uptake in GDP suddenly is the centre of good projections. Nice! Keep the good reports coming, they long over due.