Via Newgeography:
Tokyo continues to be the world's largest urban area with more than 37 million people, according to the recently released 9th Annual edition of Demographia World Urban Areas. Tokyo has held the top position for nearly 60 years, since it displaced New York. There have been only modest changes in the ranking of the world's largest urban areas over the past year. The top four urban areas remain the same, with Jakarta (Jabotabek) second, Seoul third and Delhi fourth. Fast-growing Shanghai, however, assumed fifth place, displacing Manila where the latest census data showed less population growth than had been expected
Annual Update on World Urbanization: 2013 | Newgeography.com
Points:
- “51% of the world's urban population lives in urban areas with less than 500,000 population.”
- “The share of the population in larger urban areas is greater in the more developed world than in the developing world.”
- “…the larger urban areas have higher average population densities than smaller urban areas.”
- “…urban areas in the developing world are considerably more dense in the less developed world, to be expected given the relationship between lower incomes and higher population densities.”
- “The world's largest urban areas are increasingly located in the developing world.”
- “According to the United Nations, urban population will increase more than 2.5 billion between 2010 and 2050 in less developed regions, compared to less than 150 million in its more developed regions. By 2050, more than 85 percent of the world's urbanization is expected to be in today's less developed regions.”
