Such information is vital for setting policy priorities to promote inclusive, equitable and sustainable development for urban and rural areas alike. Welcome to the United Nations. It's your world. UN Search. Rural populations expected to decrease as urban populations continue to grow The rural population of the world has grown slowly since and is expected to reach its peak around Sustainable urbanization is key to successful development The report notes that a successful urban planning agenda will require that attention be given to urban settlements of all sizes.
Free download English. This report presents the official United Nations estimates and projections of urban and rural populations for major areas, regions and countries of the world and of all urban agglomerations with , inhabitants or more in For the first time, it also provides statistics and analysis on natural hazard risk for of the world's largest cities by combining data from the Revision of the World Urbanization Prospects with a spatial database on natural hazards prepared by the Center for International Earth Science Information Network CIESIN at Columbia University.
Opinion: Why excreta matters. Opinion: Will future cities be friendly. The Revision will build on the previous revision by incorporating the findings of new population censuses and specialized demographic surveys, which have been published since the previous revision. This comprehensive review of worldwide demographic trends and future prospects is essential for assessing the degree of progress made in achieving the Millennium Development Goals MDGs and to guide policies aimed at achieving the new post development agenda, which Member States will adopt this fall.
The full results of the revision will be made available in the form of a two volume report. The United Nations population estimates and projections form a comprehensive set of demographic data to assess population trends at the global, regional and national levels. The revision of the World Population Prospects is the twenty-sixth edition of the official United Nations population estimates and projections, which have been prepared since by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
The revision presents population estimates from until the present for countries or areas, which have been developed through country-specific analyses of historical demographic trends. It builds on previous revisions by incorporating additional results from the and rounds of national population censuses as well as information from vital registration and recent nationally representative household sample surveys.
The revision also presents population projections to the year that reflect a range of plausible outcomes at the global, regional and country levels. This volume of the Revision presents the demographic profiles of the official United Nations population estimates and projections.
The demographic profiles display key demographic indicators for selected periods or dates between , for the world, development groups, regions, subregions 50 aggregates and countries or areas with more than 90, inhabitants in In all tables and figures, values for are estimates and those thereafter are projections medium variant, and lower and upper 95 per cent prediction intervals for figures.
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