Nearly a quarter of a billion people escaped life in the slums over the past decade, the United Nations says
The improvement was thanks largely to housing efforts in China and India, which made "giant strides", according to a report by the UN Habitat agency.
But the housing efforts were more than countered by world population growth and the rural exodus to cities.
So overall, the total number of slum dwellers actually increased from 776.7m to 827.6m, during the years 2000-2010.
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