China’s urban population surpassed 943m in 2024, say official statistics, an increase of 100m in just seven years. The ...

Urbanisation patterns over the past two decades dictate that the future is decidedly city-bound. The UN-Habitat’s World Cities Report 2022 shows that the global urban population will increase from 54 ...

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After 2000, migration from rural to urban areas across the Pan Amazon intensified, as people started moving to either main urban centers or cities in the highlands or on coastlines. In Brazil, already ...