China’s urban population surpassed 943m in 2024, say official statistics, an increase of 100m in just seven years. The ...

Pakistan has experienced one of the highest rates of urbanisation in South Asia, with around 37.7% of its population residing in urban areas. This statistic is poised to grow even further as the ...

Urbanisation is a key global challenge. During the 1950s, two-thirds of the world population lived in rural areas and only one-third in urban areas. Now, approximately five per cent of the world’s ...

Homebuyers are increasingly factoring in energy efficiency, air quality, and access to open green spaces while evaluating housing options, driven by health awareness and long-term cost considerations.

Between 2000 and 2020, the region recorded an urban population growth rate of around 2.3% per year - one of the highest globally. By 2050, more than half of the Pacific's population will live in urban ...

Increase the pace of urbanisation by boosting agricultural productivity and rural literacy, reducing rural natural growth rates and reversing the demographic divergence. Rapid urbanisation is a phrase ...

Dietrich Vollrath has nothing to disclose. Doug Gollin receives funding from the International Growth Centre and its Ethiopia Country Programme. In the past five years he has received funding from the ...

Lewis Dijkstra takes the LSE stage again to share his insights on population growth and stresses the role of natural change as the dominant source of urban growth when using a harmonised definition of ...

Urbanisation is both a driver and a result of economic development. Many economic and social activities thrive in these densely populated areas, with some inherently requiring the agglomeration of ...

Bhubaneswar: Urbanisation alone has led to 60% increase in warming of Indian cities, with eastern tier-II cities leading the way. In Bhubaneswar, urbanisation contributed 85% to the warming whereas it ...

Urbanisation is the movement of populations from rural areas to towns and cities. It tends to happen when a country's economy changes and new industries develop. In recent years, several countries in ...