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How many homeless people are there in the world?

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Any statistic would have to be an inspired guess, since in many parts of the world homeless people are considered outside normal society, thus do not appear on statistics.
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In 2005 an approximate 1 billion did not have suitable housing and 100 million had no housing whatsoever.
According to the Related Link below there are about 500 million people in the world who are homeless.

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