Urbanisation
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- Created on: 07-02-20 18:50
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- Urbanisation
- Growth in the proportion of population in an urban area
- Wealth
- LICs - Less economically developed. Not many of population
- Nepal, Ethiopia, Afghanistan
- NEE's - rapidly increasing economic development, population varies
- Brazil, China, Russia, India
- some rapid urban growth
- Thailand, China, Nigeria
- HIC - More economically developed, earlier, industrial revolution, most of population
- Slow urban growth - moving from cities: good transport, communication, commute.
- UK, Japan, Germany
- LICs - Less economically developed. Not many of population
- More than 50% of world's population live in urban areas
- Causes
- Rural-urban migration
- Pull Factors
- More jobs, better healthcare, join family, quality of life
- Push Factors
- Natural disasters, fewer jobs, dessertification, conflict/war
- Pull Factors
- Natural Increase
- Birth rate higher than death rate
- Young people, have children, better healthcare = more proportion urban
- Birth rate higher than death rate
- Rural-urban migration
- Megacities
- Over 10 million
- Mumbai in India
- 34, more than 2/3 in LICs and NEEs
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