Out of this, 47% of the urban population are actually people who have migrated from rural areas.
Li Ling of Peking University estimates that more than half of the urban population has no insurance.
At present, over two-thirds of Pakistan's parliamentary constituencies are rural, with the urban population supposedly still a minority.
Political power in such countries almost always rests with the urban population, not those out in the woods growing cocoa.
More than half the world's population already lives in cities and the urban population of sub-Saharan Africa is projected to double by 2030.
That means that the amount of urban land will double in only 19 years, whereas the urban population will double in 43 years.
In Latin America, a quarter of the urban population live in slums and the youth population in urban areas is larger than it has ever been and growing.
The urban population of the world is forecast to grow to 6.3 billion people in 2050 from 3.4 billion in 2009, representing both population growth and net migration from countryside to city.
Liu Zhi, director of the municipal commission for population and family planning, told China Daily on Saturday that the city plans to start extensive research into the characteristics of the urban population.
Habitat, 62% of the urban population in Sub-Saharan Africa lives in slums, which it describes as being typically characterized by deplorable living conditions, a feeling of insecurity and inadequate infrastructure for basic energy, sanitation and water services.
If so, his party's fortunes can only improve as the urban population grows, education improves, and young voters swell the rolls (another 1.2m, or almost a fifth of the current total, should reach voting age before the next election).
By the 1920s the urban population of America had grown to 55m, with thousands more pouring in on every tide eager to do well, and the country was already the world's largest economy, with an expanding entertainment industry to match.
The most affluent, Hartford, has among the lowest urban population densities in the world.
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As of 2000, the Asian urban population at risk of coastal flooding was 1.39 billion people, more than twice the number at risk in Europe, more than four times greater than in Latin America, and almost five times that of Africa.
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Since the early 1990s American exterminators have started to dent the urban roach population.
That means hitting the cities, which has resulted in a move towards "terrorist" tactics, not purely at the security forces, but against the general urban population.
"If 33% of (the) urban population lives in slums -- they may live in sub-human conditions, but still, they are a drain on the economy, " he said.
We do know for a fact that factors as diverse as climate change and aging populations mean that even as the global urban population continues to grow, some cities are shrinking.
It is located at Mt Druitt a area of western Sydney, with the most concentrated urban Aboriginal population in the country, who come from different tribal areas and backgrounds.
"Rising fuel prices and the increasing concentration of the population in urban areas is bringing about serious logistical problems for the delivery of food, " he says.
They are essential for the study of medieval attitudes towards piety, and the spiritual needs and wellbeing of an urban population in the middle ages.
And in the town itself the opposition party hoped for the sort of support it commonly enjoys among the relatively sophisticated urban population of Zimbabwe.
Though industry could never provide enough jobs to satisfy the demand for them, many African governments considered it the route to modernity and would thus neglect agriculture, holding down the price of food, and therefore the incomes of farmers, to pacify the politically conscious urban population.
One study has suggested that the tax system alone reduces the population density in urban areas by 15%.
Over half of the rural population is literate and the urban literacy ratio stood at almost three-fourth in the province.
So will the latest food security scheme aimed at providing subsidised food grains to 75% of the rural population and half of the urban households work?
The continent's urban population is also projected to exceed that of China and India by 2050, according to U.N. figures.
He urged the government "give consideration to whether gull contraceptives could be applied and whether these could be an effective way of limiting the burgeoning population in urban areas".
The objective of World Water Day 2011 is to focus international attention on the impact of rapid urban population growth, industrialization and uncertainties caused by climate change, conflicts and natural disasters on urban water systems.
Kirchnerb s bullying of the private sector, his increasing executive decisionism, his take-over of the judiciary, his arbitrariness, his alliance with the highly tumultuous Piqueteros, and his pro-Chavez foreign policy, have frightened the Buenos Aires urban educated population.
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