• Most urban growth coming from natural increase rather than migration. Migration contributes to about 22 per cent of the increase, natural growth contributes to more than 60 per cent
• 52 per cent of world’s urban population live in smaller cities, with less than five lakh people. Small cities to continue to dominate
•Developing regions as a whole to account for 93 per cent of urban growth, Asia and Africa over 80 per cent. By 2030, 7 out of every 10 urban inhabitants in the world will be from Asia or Africa
• World’s rural population to decrease by 28 million by then
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