By 2030 Delhi will overtake Tokyo as the world’s largest urban population and will have a population of more than 4 crores by 2035 according to a report by UN. Also according to the report over half of India’s population will live in urban areas by 2050
By 2015 the capital and its satellite towns had an estimated population of 25.9 million but that will grow to 43 million, up 67.6 percent over the two decades according to World Urbanization Prospects, a report by UN.
Tokyo will come second at 36 million with its population likely to decline from 37 million in 2015.
The other urban agglomeration with Delhi which will see the second fastest growth will be Kinshasa in Congo which will be up from 11.6 million to 26.7 million while Bangladesh’s Dhaka would reach 31.2 million from 17.6 million in 2015 according to the report.
Mumbai will grow 41.6 percent from 19.3 million in 2015 to 27.3 million in 2035 which is the same as what Delhi was in 2015.
Only Mumbai and Delhi figure in the worlds 10 most populated cities by 2035 which included six Asian cities and two from Africa and one each from Central and South America.
The list of the biggest urban agglomerations in India will see Kozhikode in Kerala entering the top 10 by 2035.
Also according to the report Bengaluru will overtake Chennai as the countries 4th largest urban city and Surat will overtake Pune to become the 8th largest.
Kozhikode will grow more than double by 2035 and Surat will also come close according to the report.
Surprisingly Mallapuram (5.5 mn) and Thrissur (4.7 mn) will also overshadow Kochi’s 4.5 mn by the mid-2030s.
In 2015 32.8 percent Indians were living in towns and cities which will grow to 52.8 percent by the mid-century.
India, China and Nigeria were projected to be the countries driving global urbanization, between them accounting for about a third of the global addition to urban population between now and 2050
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