The barchart illustrates the amount of people living in metropolis around the world and in six different region in the year 1975,2020 and a prediction for 2050. At a glance, the projection is always one the increasing side as the number of people living in urban areas has been growing steadily, although the rate of change is not exact in each region.
Between 1975 to 2020, the percentage increased to nearly 55 percent from 40 and it is expected to move upto 70% by 2050. Africa & Asia had the lowest percentage of urban populisations in 1975, both around 25%. By 2020, Asia reached 50% and Africa near about 43%, with both region expected to grow by about 15% more by 2050. However, these regions are projected to be the least urbanized.
On the other hand, Europe, Latin America, North America always had high urbanisation rate than Africa and Asia. North America started with 72% and predicted to be 90% by 2050 while Latin America is expected to grow nearly2 5% in this same period .Europse also showed a stable increase. Oceania has stayed mostly the same , with a small drop in 2020 and a slight increase again by 2050, remaining around 70%.
