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News
16 October 2017
Publisher
UNFPA
Publication date
Oct 2017
Author
UNFPA
Number of pages
140
State of World Population
As global population rises, projected to reach 7 billion in October 2011, so does the population of the world's cities. Thousands of young people live as homeless on the streets of Mexico City, the world's eighth largest city. Many of them, who had fled their homes because of lack of jobs or family violence now find themselves in squalid and often dangerous conditions.