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City dwellers grows amidst continuing disparities in level and pace of urbanization worldwide

United Nations, New York, 25 March 2010 - Hania Zlotnik, Director of the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, holds a press conference for the launch of the results of the 2009 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects. The press conference was moderated by Tim Wall from the Department of Public Information. With 50.5 per cent or 3.5 billion of the people on Earth living in cities in 2010 and urban populations growing, often at the expense of rural areas, the global population as a whole has become more urban and less rural. Yet, there are major disparities in the levels of urbanization among the major areas of the world, reveals a United Nations report issued today. According to the 2009 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects, Northern America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe and Oceania are highly urbanized, with proportions urban ranging from 70 per cent in Oceania to 82 per cent in Northern America, and their level of urbanization is expected to continue rising, even if slowly, so that by 2050 all of them, except Oceania, are expected to be more than 84 per cent urban. In contrast, Africa and Asia remain mostly rural, with just 40 per cent and 42 per cent of their respective populations living in urban settlements in 2010, and even by 2050 they are expected to be significantly less urbanized than the other major areas, reaching a proportion urban of 62 per cent in Africa and 65 per cent in Asia. Press release (pdf): http://esa.un.org/unpd/wup2009_New/Do... 2009 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects website: http://esa.un.org/unpd/wup2009_New/in...