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Megacities Are Booming
Megacities Are Booming
The number of people living in megacities has been growing significantly for decades, rising from 2.5 percent in 1950 to 16.4 percent of city dwellers in 2020.
As Statista's Katharina Buchholz details below, according to UN projections, this figure will continue to rise slightly before stabilizing at around the current level by 2050.
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At the same time, living in smaller cities is becoming less widespread.
The share of the urban population living in places with between 50,000 and 500,000 inhabitants fell from 50.8 percent to 38.6...
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