The provided table compares the rate of urban citizens in distinctive world regions between 2018 and 2022.
Overall, a consistent upward trend can be seen throughout the period, with East Asia & Pacific witnessing the most dramatic increase. While the highest data of each region was constituted by the last year of the period, it was North America that accounted for the most populated area. In contrast, South Asia was the least urbanized.
Looking into details, 82.2% was the proportion of city population in North America in 2018, then slowly went up by 0.7% to 82.9%. While its population in the first year was the domination and the highest of all other regions, its speed of urbanization was the slowest. Similar allocation can be seen in the rate of Latin America & Caribbean, which also followed an insignificant upward trend, from 80.6% to 81.6%. Oppositely, the percentage of East Asia representing its suburb citizens is the dominant, with only 34.0% of urban residents, nearly half as much as the highest data of the chart. Subsequently, throughout the period, it climbed to 34.9 in 2020 and ended at 35.8%.
Regarding remaining countries, East Asia and Pacific, Middle East and North America, and South Africa shared the same allocation of about two-thirds of the whole population. While East Asia consisted of 59% of urban residents, which was the second-lowest urbanized rate area, its growing speed was considered as the most dramatic, as it escalated by 3.2% to 62.2%. Moreover, the European Union underwent a moderate leap, starting from 74.0% and ending at 75.5%.