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     • More than 4 billion people now live in urban areas. This means over half of the world lives in urban settings.
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   How many urban settlements are there in the world in 2018?

   • This report presents the results of the official United Nations estimates and projections of urban and rural populations for 233 countries and areas of the world and for close to 1,900 urban settlements with 300,000 inhabitants or more in 2018, as published in World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision.

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   How many people live in urban areas?

   • There has been a mass migration of populations from rural to urban areas. How many people live in urban areas today? In the visualization, we see estimates of the number of people globally who live in urban and rural areas. More than 4 billion people now live in urban areas. This means over half of the world lives in urban settings.

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   How many people live in urban settlements?

   • More precisely, in 2018, two billion people live in urban settlements with fewer than 500,000 inhabitants, and another 400 million in settlements between 500,000 and 1 million, summing up to 58 per cent of the urban population (figure III.2, table III.2).

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   What is a typical urban settlement?

   • Cities, towns, townships, suburbs, etc., are typical urban settlements. Enumeration areas comprising informal settlements, hostels, institutions, industrial and recreational areas, and smallholdings within or adjacent to any formal urban settlement are classified as urban. The 1996 estimate was adjusted to comply with the 2001 census definition.

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   What is the most common type of urban settlement in the world?

   • Compared to larger cities, the cities and towns with fewer than 1 million inhabitants are the most prevalent type of urban settlements in all the geographic regions of the world except for Oceania, where most urban residents live in larger cities with 1 million to 5 million people.

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   What percentage of the world population is urban?

   • In 2020, 56.2 percent of the world population was urban. Half of these people lived in towns of less than 500,000 inhabitants. The percent of people living in urban areas has risen in every content. Image: Statista Loading...

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3. ourworldindata.org › urbanizationUrbanization - Our World in Data

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   More than 4 billion people now live in urban areas. This means over half of the world lives in urban settings. The UN estimates this milestone event – when the number of people in urban areas overtook the number in rural settings – occurred in 2007.

4. www.un.org › development › desa68% of the world population projected to live in urban areas ...

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   May 16, 2018 · Today, 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050.

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6. ourworldindata.org › how-urban-is-the-worldHow urban is the world? - Our World in Data

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   Sep 27, 2018 · Using these definitions, it reports that 52% of the world lived in urban centers, 33% in urban clusters, and 15% in rural areas in 2015. This makes the total urban share 85% (more than 6.1 billion people). The reported urban share by continent is shown in the chart here.

7. www.weforum.org › agenda › 2020How has the world's urban population changed? | World ...

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   Nov 4, 2020 · Overall, more people in the world live in urban than in rural setting since 2010. In 2020, 56.2 percent of the world population was urban. Half of these people lived in towns of less than 500,000 inhabitants.

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8. population.un.org › wup › PublicationsWorld Urbanization Prospects - Un

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   This report presents the results of the official United Nations estimates and projections of urban and rural populations for 233 countries and areas of the world and for close to 1,900 urban...

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9. ourworldindata.org › grapher › share-of-population-urbanShare of the population living in urban areas

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   May 20, 2024 · The indicator is calculated using World Bank population estimates and urban ratios from the United Nations World Urbanization Prospects. Percentages urban are the numbers of persons residing in an area defined as ''urban'' per 100 total population.

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    This report presents the results of the official United Nations estimates and projections of urban and rural populations for 233 countries and areas of the world and for close to 1,900 urban...