Nepal
Bhutan
India
Bangladesh
Madagascar
Mozambique
of adults
are illiterate,
two-thirds of
them women
20 %
Papua New
Guinea
East
Timor
Percentage of children of the correct
age enrolled in secondary school
Tertiary
education
Percentage of young people enrolled
in tertiary college
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Urbanization
Today 51 per cent of the world’s people live in cities. In 1800 just 3 per cent
were urban dwellers. Projections suggest between 60 and 70 per cent of the
world’s population will live in cities by 2030. New urbanization is largely
concentrated in the developing countries. Most major cities in Europe are static
or declining in size, partly because improved transport and communications are
reducing the economic benefits of concentrating
large numbers of people in a few places.
In developing countries, however,
big cities remain magnets for
people seeking livelihoods
when they can no
longer sustain
themselves in
the countryside.
CANADA
New York
City
USA
254m
Los Angeles,
Long Beach
& Santa Ana
MEXICO
88m
Mexico
City
GUATEMALA
CUBA
HAITI
DOM.
REPUBLIC
PUERTO
RICO
EL
SALVADOR
HONDURAS
JAMAICA
NICARAGUA
COSTA RICA
PANAMA
COLOMBIA
VENEZUELA
ECUADOR
BRAZIL
169m
Rio de
Janeiro
São Paulo
PERU
BOLIVIA
CHILE
PARAGUAY
URUGUAY
Buenos
Aires
ARGENTINA
FINLAND
NORWAY
LATVIA
SWEDEN
DEN.
NETHS
UK
London
IRELAND
BEL.
Paris
GERMANY
60m
POLAND
SLOV.
CZ
REP.
ROMANIA
HUN.
AUS.
SWITZ.
FRANCE
CRO.
B-H
SERBIA
BULG.
ALB.
GREECE
MAC.
ITALY
SPAIN
PORTUGAL
LITH.
Cairo
TUNISIA
EGYPT
LIBYA
ALGERIA
MOROCCO
MAURITANIA
SENEGAL
GAMBIA
GUINEA
SIERRA LEONE
BURK.
FASO
MALI
NIGER
CHAD
SUDAN
ERITREA
SOMALIA
ETHIOPIA
NIGERIA
79m
CÔTE
D'IVOIRE
LIBERIA
GHANA
TOGO
BENIN
Lagos
C.A.R.
UGANDA
CAMEROON
CONGO
DEM. REP.
OF CONGO
KENYA
GABON
RWANDA TANZANIA
ANGOLA
ZAMBIA
MOZAMBIQUE
BOTS.
ZIMB. MALAWI
SOUTH
AFRICA
MADAGASCAR
City scale
Number of people living in
different sizes of urban
conglomeration
2010
321,000,000
live in 21
megacities,
with over
10