According to a report by the Institute for Economics and Peace, Surat, Tehran, and London are some of the cities that will be the world's next megacities by 2050.
The new report from the Institute for Economics & Peace (pdf below) predicts that by 2050, 70 percent of the world's population—up from 54 percent in 2020—will reside in urban areas. Both population growth and the ongoing urbanisation trend, notably in so-called "megacities"—metropolises with a population of at least 10 million—are contributing to this rise.
Both push and pull factors contribute to urbanisation. The IEA details how issues with violence and a general lack of security, the existence of criminal organisations, a lack of policing, ecological degradation, and the fact that there are too many people for the available agricultural land are all factors driving people away from rural areas in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. However, the attraction of a rise in the standard...
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