Big Cities is a disease Yet trend is just opposite
More than half of the world population now lives in urban areas
Climate change and urbanization are big challenges yet we can see such issues are neither on the agenda of State, Media or Political actors. below are some useful links to read report and some more interesting facts.
Around 54 per cent of the world’s population currently lives in urban areas, a UN survey report released on Thursday said.
According to 2014 revision of the World urbanisation Prospects report, prepared by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, world population living in urban areas is expected to increase from 54 per cent to 66 per cent by 2050 as additional 2.5 billion people are predicted to live in urban areas by 2050.
Highlighting on the need for a successful urban planning agenda and greater attention to be given to smaller cities where nearly half of all people currently reside, the projections by the report indicate that urbanisation combined with overall growth will contribute to the 2.5 billion jump, with 37 per cent of the projected growth in India, which currently has the largest rural population, China and Nigeria, in that order.
New Delhi, which is currently the world’s second most populous city with 25 million inhabitants, is expected to retain its spot through at least 2030, when its population is projected to reach 36 million.
Some facts of the report
- Globally, more people live in urban areas than in rural areas, with 54 per cent of the world’s population residing in urban areas in 2014. In 1950, 30 per cent of the world’s population was urban, and by 2050, 66 per cent of the world’s population is projected to be urban.
- The urban population of the world has grown rapidly since 1950, from 746 million to 3.9 billion in 2014. Asia, despite its lower level of urbanization, is home to 53 per cent of the world’s urban population, followed by Europe (14 per cent) and Latin America and the Caribbean (13 per cent).
- Close to half of the world’s urban dwellers reside in relatively small settlements of less than 500,000 inhabitants.
- As the world continues to urbanize, sustainable development challenges will be increasingly concentrated in cities, particularly in the lower-middle-income countries where the pace of urbanization is fastest.
- The number of mega-cities has nearly tripled since 1990; and by 2030, 41 urban agglomerations are projected to house at least 10 million inhabitants each.
Pakistan case
Population: 170 million
Number of people in slums: 26.6 million
Percentage of urban population in slums: 48%
Climate change and urbanization are big challenges yet we can see such issues are neither on the agenda of State, Media or Political actors. below are some useful links to read report and some more interesting facts.
http://www.homeless-international.org/our-work/where-we-work/pakistan
http://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/Highlights/WUP2014-Highlights.pdf
http://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/
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