Growth of the urban population living in urban areas.
In 1800 only 2 percent of the world lived in the city, in 1950 30% lived in the city and in 2000 47% lived in the city. This shows a growth of 45%. This is clearly a giant leap in the urbanisation of the world. Who would have thought in the eighteen hundreds that only a hundred years from now, 50% of the world would live in the big city? But of course, you have to think about how many cities existed in 1800. It is also expected to be an increase of 13 percent more within the year 2030.
Population in regions around of the world from 1995 to 2015
When you look at the continents in the world you see how Asia's urban population has increased with 790 million people while the rural population has increases with as little as 131 million people. North America and South America have both increased with 100-200 million people while Europe have and increased urban population with 14 million. Africa has had a steady increase by doubling their urban population and increasing their rural population with around 200 million.
Megacities
Tokyo has 33.4 million citizens, New York has 24.1 million, Mexico City has 21.7 million and Seoul has 20.2 million. You see here that these are cities in the countries with the highest population count. While Sao Paulo, Los Angeles and Jakarta has around 18-19 million citizens, Osaka-Kyoto-Kobe, Delhi and Mumbai all has a population count of around 17 million. These major cities have the same situation as the previous since all of these cities are located in countries with a high population count.
After reading the graphs
After reading and interpreting these Graphs i must say i become a little bit nervous. With The 6.9 billion people living in the world today, more than half live in the big city. I then think about the other cities, the villages and all the space in the world not being used. It makes me nervous to think about how the country life is slowly decreasing and possibly causing the world to lose contact with the nature we all know and love. I do hope this will never happen but when looking at these graphs i see that this is an actual possibility.
