The
2009 Revision
of the World Urbanization
Prospects, prepared by the
United Nations Population Division, provides a comprehensive and
consistent set of urban and rural population data for the world's
countries and areas, as well as for urban agglomerations with more
than 750,000 inhabitants in 2009. The data referring to urban and
rural areas cover the period 1950-2050 and those referring to urban
agglomerations cover the period 1950-2025. Detailed results from the
2009 Revision
are available for purchase in two sets of files, distributed on a
single CD-ROM.
The files are prepared
in Excel 2003, which is compatible with all versions since Excel
5.0/95. The CD-ROM version launches a navigation interface upon
insertion that provides direct access to the files.
In the data sets, figures for
1950-2009 are estimates and those for years beyond 2009 are
projections. To the exception of a selected set of annual
indicators, estimates and projections are presented for years that
are multiples of five. The urban, rural and city data presented
are consistent with the medium variant of the
2008 Revision
of World Population
Prospects, the official
United Nations population estimates and projections at the national
level. A short description of each set of files is presented below;
the list of file names and their contents are presented in detail in
tables for
Data
Set 1: Urban and
Rural Areas and
Data
Set 2: Urban
Agglomerations.
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(1)
Urban and rural areas: Ten files present estimates and
projections of the population in urban and rural areas as well
as associated indicators. The data are presented for 230
countries and areas individually and for 33 country aggregates,
including the world as a whole, the more and the less developed
regions, the major world areas and selected additional
aggregates. The projected values cover the period 2009-2050. The
files present information on: (1) urban and rural population and
percentage urban in 2009; (2) the percentage of the population
residing in urban areas; (3) the urban population by country;
(4) the rural population by country; (5) the total population by
country; (6) the average annual rate of change of the urban
population; (7) the average annual rate of change of the rural
population; (8) the average annual rate of change of the total
population; (9) the urbanization rate or average annual rate of
change of the percentage urban, and (10) the average annual rate
of change of the percentage rural. In addition to these data
presented for five-year periods, annual time series are provided
for the following five indicators: (10) the total population by
country; (11) the urban population by country; (12) the rural
population by country; (13) the percentage of the population
residing in urban areas.
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(2)
Urban agglomerations: Eleven files present the estimates
and projections of the population in urban agglomerations. The
main set of files contains data only for urban agglomerations
with 750,000 inhabitants or more in 2009. They cover the
following indicators: (1) the total population of each urban
agglomeration (also included as annual time series); (2) the
average annual rate of change of the population of each urban
agglomeration; (3) the percentage of the urban population
residing in each urban agglomeration; (4) the percentage of the
total population residing in each urban agglomeration. Three
more files provide data for specific sets of urban
agglomerations. The first one presents the 30 largest urban
agglomerations of the world ranked by population size over the
period 1950-2025. The second provides 1950-2025 time series of
the population of the 30 largest urban agglomerations in 2009.
The third presents the population of the capital cities of each
country for the year 2009. Lastly, four files (one per indicator
and altogether) provide summary statistics for major areas,
regions and countries (with a population of less than 100,000 in
2009) on the number of cities, the percentage of urban
population and the urban population by size class of urban
settlement.
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