Global Urban Change Flashcards

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What is urbanisation?

The increase in the proportion of a country's population living in urban areas (towns and cities).

In which year were the global urban and rural populations the same?

Give one reason why cities in HICs are now growing more slowly than cities in LICs/NEEs.

They urbanised in the past, during the industrial revolution, so most of the population already lives in urban areas.

In which two continents is the urban population growing fastest?

Africa (fastest of all) and Asia, where most countries are LICs or NEEs.