#MOST POPULOUS CITIES IN US UPDATE#

Note: This is an update of a post originally published on July 11, 2014. The 2021 total fertility rate in sub-Saharan Africa, 4.6 births per woman, is double the global average of 2.3 births per woman and triple the average in Europe and Northern America (1.5) and in Eastern and South-Eastern Asia (also 1.5). 4: Population predictions of the 101 largest cities in the 21st century. Growth is expected to be concentrated in sub-Saharan Africa, where an estimated 29% of all the world’s births happened last year. City population projections for the worlds 200 largest cities in 2050 from Hoornweg & Popes GCIF Working Paper No. Census Bureaus 'Patterns of Metropolitan and Micropolitan Population Change: 2000 to 2010 1 ' report, the New York City, San. As large cities continue to expand, swallowing up. In the UN’s “medium” scenario for future population growth – its middle-of-the-road estimate – the global population is expected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050 and 10.4 billion in 2100. By 2030, 8.8 of the worlds population will live in cities with more than 10 million inhabitants. Including Brazil’s 215 million people puts the world’s seven most populous countries at 51.7% of the global population.

Recent population growth, however, has been faster in the rest of the world than in these nations, meaning that the top six now hold slightly less than half (49%) of the world’s people. In fact, China’s population is greater than the entire population of Europe (744 million) or the Americas (1.04 billion) and roughly equivalent to that of all nations in Africa (1.427 billion).Īs recently as 2015, half the world’s population was concentrated in just six countries – the same as above, with the exception of Nigeria, which was then the seventh most populous country and has since passed Brazil to move into sixth place. This wordmap includes the names of cities that have ever been listed as one of the 20 most populous cities in the country, since 1790. The next five most populous nations – the United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria and Brazil – together have fewer people than India or China. The United States is home to nearly 327.2 million people, more than any other country in the Western Hemisphere and the third most worldwide, trailing only China and India. has made TSEs international Ranking of Sport Cities every year since 2012. And more than half of all people live in just seven countries.Ĭhina has the world’s largest population (1.426 billion), but India (1.417 billion) is expected to claim this title next year. Chicago is the third largest city in the United States, with a population of. The world’s population will cross 8 billion in November, according to recently released projections from the United Nations. China has the world’s largest population, but is projected to slide down to second place in the global population ranking in 2023. The top ten most populous cities in the United States are New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas & San Jose. People shown at a water park in China in 2017. An 'incorporated place,' according to the United States Census Bureau, might be a city, town, village, borough, or municipality, among other titles.

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