Languages: English. Some of the U.S.'s largest urban areas are showing signs of recovery after major population declines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Large cities, like New York City and Los ...

New York, 16 May - Today, 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. Projections show that urbanization, the gradual shift in ...

As countries develop, people tend to move from rural to urban areas. The world's urban population is expected to grow by 1.8 percent a year between 2000 and 2030, almost twice as fast as global ...

Today, more than half of the world’s population – 4.4 billion people – lives in cities. This shift is set to continue, with the urban population expected to more than double by 2050, at which point ...

2007 was the first year in which more people lived in urban areas than in rural areas, and by 2050 about 66 per cent of the world population will be living in cities. These megatrends have far ...

Our findings show that 75 percent of the developing world's poor still live in rural areas, although there are some marked regional differences. But the share of the poor living in urban areas is ...

Half of the global population already lives in cities, and by 2050 two-thirds of the world's people are expected to live in urban areas. But in cities two of the most pressing problems facing the ...