World Urbanization Prospects 2025 changes the measurement

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The UN Population Division published the 2025 revision, integrating the grid-based Degree of Urbanisation for the first time and lowering the city threshold to 50,000 inhabitants. It reported 45 per cent of the world in cities, 36 per cent in towns and 19 per cent rural, 33 megacities, and about 982 million additional city dwellers projected by 2050 — and it moved Jakarta from 33rd to first among the world's largest cities without anyone moving.

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