The State of the World Atlas [ff]. Dan Smith

      Nepal

      Bhutan

      India

      Bangladesh

      Madagascar

      Mozambique

      of adults

      are illiterate,

      two-thirds of

      them women

      20 %

      Papua New

      Guinea

      East

      Timor

      Percentage of children of the correct

      age enrolled in secondary school

      Tertiary

      education

      Percentage of young people enrolled

      in tertiary college

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      Urbanization

      Today 51 per cent of the world’s people live in cities. In 1800 just 3 per cent

      were urban dwellers. Projections suggest between 60 and 70 per cent of the

      world’s population will live in cities by 2030. New urbanization is largely

      concentrated in the developing countries. Most major cities in Europe are static

      or declining in size, partly because improved transport and communications are

      reducing the economic benefits of concentrating

      large numbers of people in a few places.

      In developing countries, however,

      big cities remain magnets for

      people seeking livelihoods

      when they can no

      longer sustain

      themselves in

      the countryside.

      CANADA

      New York

      City

      USA

      254m

      Los Angeles,

      Long Beach

      & Santa Ana

      MEXICO

      88m

      Mexico

      City

      GUATEMALA

      CUBA

      HAITI

      DOM.

      REPUBLIC

      PUERTO

      RICO

      EL

      SALVADOR

      HONDURAS

      JAMAICA

      NICARAGUA

      COSTA RICA

      PANAMA

      COLOMBIA

      VENEZUELA

      ECUADOR

      BRAZIL

      169m

      Rio de

      Janeiro

      São Paulo

      PERU

      BOLIVIA

      CHILE

      PARAGUAY

      URUGUAY

      Buenos

      Aires

      ARGENTINA

      FINLAND

      NORWAY

      LATVIA

      SWEDEN

      DEN.

      NETHS

      UK

      London

      IRELAND

      BEL.

      Paris

      GERMANY

      60m

      POLAND

      SLOV.

      CZ

      REP.

      ROMANIA

      HUN.

      AUS.

      SWITZ.

      FRANCE

      CRO.

      B-H

      SERBIA

      BULG.

      ALB.

      GREECE

      MAC.

      ITALY

      SPAIN

      PORTUGAL

      LITH.

      Cairo

      TUNISIA

      EGYPT

      LIBYA

      ALGERIA

      MOROCCO

      MAURITANIA

      SENEGAL

      GAMBIA

      GUINEA

      SIERRA LEONE

      BURK.

      FASO

      MALI

      NIGER

      CHAD

      SUDAN

      ERITREA

      SOMALIA

      ETHIOPIA

      NIGERIA

      79m

      CÔTE

      D'IVOIRE

      LIBERIA

      GHANA

      TOGO

      BENIN

      Lagos

      C.A.R.

      UGANDA

      CAMEROON

      CONGO

      DEM. REP.

      OF CONGO

      KENYA

      GABON

      RWANDA TANZANIA

      ANGOLA

      ZAMBIA

      MOZAMBIQUE

      BOTS.

      ZIMB. MALAWI

      SOUTH

      AFRICA

      MADAGASCAR

      City scale

      Number of people living in

      different sizes of urban

      conglomeration

      2010

      321,000,000

      live in 21

      megacities,

      with over

      10