Kearney), seven new cities have been added to the Index and the Outlook: In the US, Seattle joins the rankings for the first time, and in China, six cities have emerged in the rankings (Changsha, Foshan, Ningbo, Tangshan, Wuxi, and Yantai). In the 2018’s Global Cities Index and Emerging Cities Outlook (A.T. Other countries with megacities include the United States, Brazil and Pakistan, each with two. China alone has 15 megacities, and India has six. The largest are the metropolitan areas of Tokyo, Shanghai, and Jakarta, each having over 30 million inhabitants.
Most of these urban agglomerations are in China and other countries of Asia. Net migration is the difference between the number of new residents-either from other parts of the country or from abroad-and the number of residents who have left the area.Īs of 2017, there are 47 megacities in existence. Natural growth is simply the number of births over a given period less the number of deaths. Population change is the product of two factors–net migration and natural growth. Still, some cities are demonstrably more attractive to new residents than others thus the reason for population growth. The factors that make some parts of the country preferable to others as a place to live and raise a family vary from one person to the next. VARIABLES such as topography, climate, tax code, and cost of living -in addition to proximity to family and friends-all play roles in the emergence of cities and attractive places to live in.
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