The bar chart illustrates the data about urban population growth in the whole world, Africa, Asia, and Latin America from 1950 to 2030. Overall, it can be observed that the number of individuals who live in cities will keep increasing and Latin America is the region with a rapid growing population.
Focusing on the biggest numbers, Latin America had 41% of population residing in metropolitan in 1950; nevertheless, this number had a significant increase up to 70% in 2000. Furthermore, the perspective analysis forecasts rising the numbers to 80% by 2030. Similarly, the whole world has upward trend with 40% in 1950, followed by a slight increase to 48% in 2000, anticipating a climb to 60% by 2030.
When it comes to the smaller numbers, amount of people who live in metropolises has roughly similar figures in Africa and Asia. In these parts of the world city population has experienced around 13% in 1950, then this number was improved to 39% in 2000 and the following projection predicts increasing up to 51% by 2030.
