The urban population of the world has grown rapidly from 751 million in 1950 to 4.2 billion in 2018. By 2050, it is projected that India will have added 416 million urban dwellers, China 255 million and Nigeria 189 million.

Together, India, China and Nigeria will account for 35% of the projected growth of the world’s urban population between 20.

The 2018 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects produced by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) notes that future increases in the size of the world’s urban population are expected to be highly concentrated in just a few countries. Projections show that urbanization, the gradual shift in residence of the human population from rural to urban areas, combined with the overall growth of the world’s population could add another 2.5 billion people to urban areas by 2050, with close to 90% of this increase taking place in Asia and Africa, according to a new United Nations data set launched today. Today, 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. (This story has not been edited by Devdiscourse staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.68% of the world population projected to live in urban areas by 2050, says UN Later on Monday Yevgeny Balitsky, the Russian-installed acting governor of Zaporizhzhia region, said three people were killed and about 15 injured after Ukrainian shelling of a local store in the village of Basan. Russian-installed Donetsk Mayor Alexei Kulemzin separately published on Telegram pictures of a burnt-out bus. In a statement posted on Telegram, Denis Pushilin, the Russian-installed acting head of those parts of Donetsk region that Moscow controls, said the casualties occurred when Ukrainian shells hit a civilian bus. Six people were killed in Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk city and a village in Zaporizhzhia region, Russian news agencies reported on Monday, citing local officials and emergency services.Īccording to TASS news agency, three people had been killed and 11 injured in Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk. Reuters | Moscow | Updated: 31-07-2023 23:30 IST | Created: 31-07-2023 23:29 IST Representative image Image Credit: ANI

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