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Title: These Will Be The World's Next Megacities
Source: LRC
URL Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/01 ... be-the-worlds-next-megacities/
Published: Jan 29, 2023
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2023-01-29 20:00:37 by Charles_Byrd
Keywords: None
Views: 135

By 2050, 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, up from 54 percent in 2020, according to a new report by the Institute for Economics & Peace. This increase is being driven by both population growth and a continued shift towards urbanization, particularly to so called ‘megacities’ – metropolises that have a population of 10 million or more.

As Statista’s Anna Fleck details below, urbanization takes place because of both push and pull factors. The IEA describes how in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital of Kinshasa, factors pushing people away from rural areas include issues of violence and a general lack of security, the presence of criminal groups, lack of policing, ecological degradation, and the fact there are too many people for the available agricultural land. Meanwhile, a pull factor could be the attraction of an increase in the standard of living.

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