URBANISATION IN DEVELOPING ASIA

Key Findings:

• Between 1970 to 2017, the urban population in Developing Asia group of countries grew five-fold from 375 million to 1.84 billion.
  
  
• Two-thirds of the nearly 1.5.billion additional city dwellers in Developing Asia belong to China and India.
  
  
• Developing Asia urbanised faster than the rest of the world not only in terms of absolute growth, but also in terms of growth rate. The urban population in this region increased at an average 3.4% per annum from 1970 to 2017. This was much faster than the 2.6% in the rest of the developing world and 1.0% in the developed world.
  
  
• Within the Developing Asia region, East Asia, at 3.7%, had the highest annual growth rate. It was followed by Southeast Asia at 3.6%, and South Asia at 3.3%. The Pacific saw an annual growth rate of 2.9% in the urban population, and Central Asia witnessed a 1.6% annual growth.