How Urban Is the World?

Overall, more people in the world live in urban than in rural setting since 2010. In 2020, 56.2 percent of the world population was urban. Half of these people lived in towns of less than 500,000 inhabitants. The percent of people living in urban areas has risen in every content.

Is the world becoming more urban?

Urbanization is a trend unique to the past few centuries. By 2050 it's projected that more than two-thirds of the world population will live in urban areas. It's projected that close to 7 billion people will live in urban areas in 2050. People tend to migrate from rural to urban areas as they become richer.

How much land on Earth is urban?

Three percent of the world's land surface is covered with urban areas, an increase of at least 50 percent over previous estimates, scientists said this week.