Saturday, February 7, 2015

Top Megacities in 2015

There is wide discrepancy in the sources for population, so I made a chart.  There are 31 megacities in the world today if London is included and Shenzhen is excluded (part of Pearl River Delta)




Most Populous Urban Areas in the World











Rank City
Economist [1]
Worldbank [2]
Demographia [3]
CityPopulation .de [4]
Wikipedia [5]
1 Pearl River Delta
41.8

41.8
NA Guangzhou-Foshan

20.6 34.3
NA Guanghzou, China 9.6


NA Foshan, China 6.7



NA Dongguan, China 7.1
8.4

NA Shenzhen, China 10.2
12.1 12.3

Total Pearl River Delta 33.6 41.8 41.1 46.6 41.8







2 Tokyo, Japan 36.8 31.8 37.8 39.4 37.2
3 Jakarta, Indonesia 9.6 23.4 30.5 27.4 26.7
4 Seoul, South Korea 9.8 15.9 23.5 24.2 25.4
5 Delhi, India 21.9
25.0 25.7 22.8
6 Shanghai, China [6] 20.0 24.2 23.4 30.2 21.8
7 Manila, Philippines 11.9 16.5 24.1 22.8 21.2
8 Karachi, Pakistan 14.1
22.1 23.6 20.9
9 New York, US 18.4
20.6 21.9 20.7
10 Sao Paulo, Brazil 19.7
20.4 21.6 20.6
11 Mexico City, Mexico 20.1
20.1 22.4 20.0
12 Beijing, China 16.2 16.7 21.0 20.3 18.2
13 Mumbai, India 19.4
17.7 22.8 17.3
14 Osaka, Japan 19.5 12.2 17.4 17.8 17.2
15 Moscow, Russia 10.5
16.2 16.8 15.8
16 Cairo, Egypt 16.9
15.6 16.5 15.1
17 Los Angeles, US 12.2
15.1 17.4 15.1
18 Tehran, Iran 8.1
13.5 13.5 14.7
19 Kolkata, India 14.3
14.7 15.8 14.6
20 Bangkok, Thailand 8.2 9.6 15.0 15.1 14.5
21 Dhaka, Bangladesh 14.7
15.7 17.0 14.4
22 London, UK 9.7
10.2 14.1 9.6
23 Buenos Aires, Argentina 14.2
14.1 15.8 13.8
24 Istanbul, Turkey 12.7
13.3 14.2 12.9
25 Lagos, Nigeria 10.8
13.1 13.7 12.1
26 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 12.4
11.7 12.6 11.6
27 Paris, France 10.5
10.9 11.2 10.9
28 Tianjin, China 9.5 8.8 10.9 11.1 9.3
29 Nagoya, Japan 9.2
10.2 10.4 10.2
30 Kinshasa, Dem Rep Congo 9.4
11.6 10.3 9.4
31 Bangalore, India 8.3
9.8 10.1 9.0







NA Bogota, Colombia 8.5
9.0 9.3 9.9
NA Lima, Peru 9.0
10.8 9.9 9.4
NA Chennai, India 8.5
9.7 9.8 9.2
NA Chicago, IL 8.6
9.2 9.8 9.1
NA Chengdu, China 6.2 8.3 10.4 9.0 8.4
NA Lahore, Pakistan 7.5
10.1 9.8 8.0
NA Chongqing, China 11.2 5.0 7.2 6.9 6.6
NA Suzhou, Jiangsu, China 4.0
5.2
4.4


Notes:


[1] http://www.economist.com/node/21642053?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/dc/dailychart


[2] http://www.worldbank.org/content/dam/Worldbank/Publications/Urban%20Development/EAP_Urban_Expansion_full_report_web.pdf


[3] http://demographia.com/db-worldua.pdf


[4] http://citypopulation.de/world/Agglomerations.html


[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_by_population


[6] Does Shanghai include Suzhou? Yes in sources 2 and 4, no in the others.


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