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This is a list of towns and cities in the world believed to have 100,000 or more inhabitants, sorted by countries. Unless otherwise noted, populations are based on United Nations estimates from 2022. Unless otherwise noted, populations are based on United Nations estimates from 2022.
community networks: technological advances in transportation and communication prompts more people to live in large-scale communities; [18] social movements: when high status elites and institutions sought to revive the inner cities, more high-income individuals moved into the cities.
The Chinese municipality of Chongqing, which is the largest city proper in the world by population, comprises a huge administrative area of 82,403 km 2, around the size of Austria. However, more than 70% of its 30-million population are agricultural workers living in a rural setting .
One billion people, almost one-seventh of the world's population, now live in shanty towns. [22] In many poor countries, overcrowded slums exhibit high rates of disease due to unsanitary conditions, malnutrition, and lack of basic health care. [23] By 2030, over 2 billion people in the world will be living in slums. [24]
San Francisco lost more than 54,800 people, or 6.3 percent of its population, between 2020 and 2021, according to an analysis of Census Bureau data conducted by the Brookings Institution.
In some cases, the population figures refer to capital districts or Metropolises and, in the case of the People's Republic of China, to the urban population of the city in question. In many cases, the city boundaries do not correspond to the settlement structure and the boundaries of metropolitan regions and agglomerations often extend far ...
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Earth has a human population of over 8 billion as of 2024, with an overall population density of 50 people per km 2 (130 per sq. mile). Nearly 60% of the world's population lives in Asia, with more than 2.8 billion in the countries of India and China combined. The percentage shares of China, India and rest of South Asia of the world population ...