Urbanisation

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  • Urbanisation
    • Growth in the proportion of population in an urban area
    • Wealth
      • LICs - Less economically developed. Not many of population
        • Nepal, Ethiopia, Afghanistan
      • NEE's - rapidly increasing economic development, population varies
        • Brazil, China, Russia, India
        • some rapid urban growth
          • Thailand, China, Nigeria
      • HIC - More economically developed, earlier, industrial revolution, most of population
        • Slow urban growth - moving from cities: good transport,  communication, commute.
        • UK, Japan, Germany
    • More than 50% of world's population live in urban areas
    • Causes
      • Rural-urban migration
        • Pull Factors
          • More jobs, better healthcare, join family, quality of life
        • Push Factors
          • Natural disasters, fewer jobs, dessertification, conflict/war
      • Natural Increase
        • Birth rate higher than death rate
          • Young people, have children, better healthcare = more proportion urban
    • Megacities
      • Over 10 million
      • Mumbai in India
      • 34, more than 2/3 in LICs and NEEs

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