New Delhi: By the year 2050, 68% of the world’s population will live in urban areas, the United Nations (UN) said on Wednesday. This boom is expected to be concentrated in India, China and Nigeria, according to a report on the world’s urbanisation prospects released by the Population Division of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
“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,” the United Nations said in a release.
