Seeing Pressures but Also Possibilities in Urban Growth

Next year, more than half of the world population is expected to be living in cities; a new UN report urges governments to prepare.
08 July 2007

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The United Nations Population Fund just released its yearly "State of World Population" report. Researchers say three-and-a-third billion people will be living in urban areas next year. By two thousand thirty, the estimate is almost five billion. The fastest growth will be in Asia and Africa.


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