Growth of the urban population
As the world population is frequently increasing, the bigger and the smaller cities are growing accordingly. Do to the urbanization in the world we can see that more and more of the world's population are situated in the cities, creating megacities like Tokyo, New York and Delhi for example. Looking at some of the graphs that have been presented for these specific changes we can see that the percentage of people moving to the cities has grown exponentially since the 19th century, when only 2 percent of the total population was living in the cities. After two hundred years the urban population grew to 47 %, which is a lot. Even though this is a notable alteration, I think we will face an even bigger change in the years between 2015 and 2030. I believe this because we have predicted that 52 % will be living in the urban areas already in 2015 and that it is going to increase to about 60 % by year 2030. This means an increase of 8 percentage points in 15 years which is a lot more than for example the 28 percentage points from year 1800 to year 1950.
Population in regions of the world
The statistics shown on the population in the regions of the world are very different from each other. In the areas we call "the west" I can see that the urban populations are growing while the rural districts are decreasing consequently, which to me seems like the people from the countryside's are moving towards the cities. In the East on the other hand, in Asia and Africa the urban areas are getting bigger as well, but the odd thing is that the rural districts are growing in similar size. This I believe could only mean that the populations in these continents are increasing fast and that the moving of the population doesn't have that much to say, rather than the increase of the people as a total.
Megacities
As the world's population seems to be headed towards the city areas we are creating what we call megacities. A megacity needs to have a population larger than 10 million inhabitants and also have a population density of at least 2000 people per square kilometer. When talking about megacities we also have expressions like metropolitan areas, which is the definition of a megacity. A megacity can be one metropolitan or two metropolitans converging. The biggest metropolitans we have today are cities like New York, Mumbai, Delhi, Tokyo and Mexico City.
As the world population is frequently increasing, the bigger and the smaller cities are growing accordingly. Do to the urbanization in the world we can see that more and more of the world's population are situated in the cities, creating megacities like Tokyo, New York and Delhi for example. Looking at some of the graphs that have been presented for these specific changes we can see that the percentage of people moving to the cities has grown exponentially since the 19th century, when only 2 percent of the total population was living in the cities. After two hundred years the urban population grew to 47 %, which is a lot. Even though this is a notable alteration, I think we will face an even bigger change in the years between 2015 and 2030. I believe this because we have predicted that 52 % will be living in the urban areas already in 2015 and that it is going to increase to about 60 % by year 2030. This means an increase of 8 percentage points in 15 years which is a lot more than for example the 28 percentage points from year 1800 to year 1950.
Population in regions of the world
The statistics shown on the population in the regions of the world are very different from each other. In the areas we call "the west" I can see that the urban populations are growing while the rural districts are decreasing consequently, which to me seems like the people from the countryside's are moving towards the cities. In the East on the other hand, in Asia and Africa the urban areas are getting bigger as well, but the odd thing is that the rural districts are growing in similar size. This I believe could only mean that the populations in these continents are increasing fast and that the moving of the population doesn't have that much to say, rather than the increase of the people as a total.
Megacities
As the world's population seems to be headed towards the city areas we are creating what we call megacities. A megacity needs to have a population larger than 10 million inhabitants and also have a population density of at least 2000 people per square kilometer. When talking about megacities we also have expressions like metropolitan areas, which is the definition of a megacity. A megacity can be one metropolitan or two metropolitans converging. The biggest metropolitans we have today are cities like New York, Mumbai, Delhi, Tokyo and Mexico City.
