By 2050, The World's Most-Populous Cities Will All Be In Africa Or Asia

By 2050, The World's Most-Populous Cities Will All Be In Africa Or Asia Across 150 years, familiar urban giants rise, fall, and give way to a new generation of megacities. This visualization, via Visual Capitalist's Gabriel Cohen, ranks the 15 most populous cities worldwide from 1950 to 2100 using population estimates from the European Commission’s JRC via Our World in Data. City boundaries were consistently defined based on satellite imagery and population data. The Transatlantic Era Tokyo led the 1950 ranking with 12.6 million people, followed by New York with 9.3 million. The Big Apple...