Related research and data

• The plurality of people in the world now live in cities
• Urbanization

Charts

• Access to basic handwashing facilities, urban vs. rural
• Access to electricity, urban vs. rural
• Annual growth rate of urban agglomerations with 300,000 inhabitants or more
• Annual growth rate of urban population share
• Do more people live in urban or rural areas?
• Employment in agriculture vs. urban population
• Minimum number of inhabitants for a settlement to qualify as an urban area
• Number of countries with a given minimum urban population threshold
• Number of people living in the capital cityUnited Nations
• Number of people living in the capital cityEuropean Commission
• Number of people living in the world's largest citiesEuropean Commission
• Number of people living in urban and rural areasUN
• Number of people living in urban slum households
• Number of unique settlements
• Population density
• Population density of the capital city
• Population density of the world's largest cities
• Population density vs. GDP per capita
• Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million
• Population living in urban and rural areasHYDE
• Population of cities, towns and rural areas
• Population of the world's largest citiesUnited Nations
• Sanitation facilities usage in rural areas
• Sanitation facilities usage in urban areas
• Share of children who are stunted in urban and rural areas
• Share of people living in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million
• Share of people living in urban and rural areasUN
• Share of people living in urban areasEuropean Commission
• Share of population living in multidimensional poverty: urban vs. rural areasCurrent estimates, scatterplot
• Share of the population living in urban areasUN and HYDE projections
• Share of the population living in urban areasUN
• Share of the population living in urbanized areasHYDE
• Share of the population living in urbanized areas vs. GDP per capita
• Share of the rural and urban population with access to clean fuels for cooking
• Share of the rural population living near a road
• Share of the urban and rural population using safely managed drinking water
• Share of the urban and rural population using safely managed sanitation services
• Share of the urban population living in slums
• Share of the urban population who live in the largest city
• Share of urban population by agglomeration size
• Share of urban population living in inadequate housing
• Share of urban population with convenient access to an open public space
• Share of urban population with convenient access to open public spaces
• Share of urban populations with convenient access to public transport
• Urban and rural population projected to 2050HYDE & UN projections
• Urban area over the long-termHYDE
• Urban land area
• Urban policies that respond to population dynamics
• Urban population vs. female labor force participation rate
• Using safely managed drinking water in urban vs. rural areas