The bar chart illustrates the statistics of urban population growth according to four different categories – the whole world, Africa, Asia, and Latin America – in three different years: 1950, 2000, and 2030.
Overall, all four categories experienced upward trends, albeit to varying degrees, over the 80-year period. While Latin America was a dominant region in urban population growth in all observed years, Africa and Asia consistently recorded the lowest proportions of urban residents across the period. Furthermore, three regions, namely Africa, Asia, and Latin America, saw a significant increase between 1950 and 2000.
In 1950, the percentage of urban dwellers in Latin America and the whole world showed higher figures, accounting for 41% and 30%, respectively. These figures, however, altered considerably by 2000, rising to 48% for the whole world and 70% for Latin America. Finally, both the whole world and Latin America are expected to account for nearly the same growth, with figures standing at 60% and 70%, respectively, in 2030.
Regarding Africa and Asia, the increase in urban dwellers started at nearly the same level, at around 13% in 1950. Nevertheless, although the proportion of urban population growth in Africa and Asia experienced a similar noticeable rise to 39% in 2000, a slight gap is then projected to emerge, with figures reaching 51% for Africa and 57% for Asia in 2030.