Urban Growth Spurt Continues
Notes:
Urban Population Growth, 1950-2025
Between 1990 and 2025, the number of people living in urban areas is projected to double to more than 5 billion; if it does, then almost two thirds of the world’s poulation will be living in towns and cities. An estimated 90 percent of the increase will occur in developing countries. For more information see http://www.wri.org/trends/citygrow.html.
Source: United Nations (U.N.) Population Division, World Urbanization Prospects (The 1996 Revision), on diskette (U.N., New York, 1996).
cNote: Developed regions include North America, Japan, Europe, and Australia and New Zealand; developing regions include Africa, Asia (excluding Japan), South America and Central America, and Oceania (excluding Australia and New Zealand). The European successor states of the former Soviet Union are classified as developed regions, while the Asian successor states are classified as developing regions.