UPPSC 2018 General Studies I Solved Paper

(d) According to UN-DESA 55% of the world’s population lives in urban areas, a proportion that is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. Projections show that urbanisation, the gradual shift in residence of the human population from rural to urban areas,combined with the overall growth of the world’s population could add another 2.5 billion people to urban areas by 2050, with close to 90% of this increase taking place in Asia and Africa.