how much of the world is urbanised
The majority of the world s population will soon live in urban rather than rural areas. Adding a spatial dimension to population estimates, a new study finds that as much as three percent of the Earth s land area has already been urbanized, which is double previous estimates.RUMP delineates urban boundaries across the planet ranging in size from 1 km 2 to the largest of urban extents, Tokyo, which includes more than 500 connected settlements and is the largest urbanized area in the world at 30,000 km 2.
With the world's urban population set to soar by 2. The world's urban population is expected to grow by 2,600,000,000 by 2050, bringing the total number of urbanites to 6,300,000,000, according to research conducted by the Worldwatch Institute, Washington, D.