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Demographics of MegaCities
Title: Demographics of MegaCities
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 305 | Pages: 1.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Demographics of MegaCities
Cities are growing at a rate of around 1 million people every week.
Half the Earth's population will soon live in congested, urban
regions mainly in the poor, developing countries of Asia and Africa.
If the 20th century was the century of urban sprawl, the 21st
century will be the century of the megacity. A megacity is defined
as a city with an estimated population of more than 10 million
people.
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The world's megacities take up just 2 percent of the Earth's land
surface, yet they account for roughly 75 percent of industrial wood
use, 60 percent of human water use, and nearly 80 percent of all
human produced carbon emissions.
Between 1990 and 2025, the number of people living
in urban areas is projected to double to more than 5 billion- 90
percent of that increase will occur in developing countries. The
explosion and growth of megacities worldwide is unprecedented.
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