{"id":2570,"date":"2025-12-02T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/02\/jalalabad-population-tripled-unplanned-urban-growth\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T15:00:14","slug":"jalalabad-population-tripled-unplanned-urban-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/02\/jalalabad-population-tripled-unplanned-urban-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalalabad\u2019s Population Triples in 24 Years Amid Unplanned Urban Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) has reported that Jalalabad, a city in Afghanistan\u2019s Nangarhar province, has tripled in size over the past 24 years, expanding without any effective urban planning.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the city&#8217;s rapid and unregulated population growth and geographic expansion have led to reduced access to essential services, increased inequality, and the proliferation of informal settlements. Experts have warned that if this trend continues unchecked and without clear policies, it could have serious consequences for the lives of Jalalabad residents.<\/p>\n<p>Jalalabad, one of the key cities in eastern Afghanistan, has seen a significant influx of migrants from surrounding districts in recent years. This uncontrolled population growth has placed immense strain on the city\u2019s already fragile infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>While international organizations like UN-Habitat stress the need for human-centered urban development, the Taliban administration has failed to present any clear or practical plans to manage urbanization and respond to citizens\u2019 needs. This lack of governance threatens to further complicate the future of cities like Jalalabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN-Habitat reports that Jalalabad&#8217;s population has tripled in 24 years due to unplanned urban growth, straining infrastructure and deepening inequality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}