urbanisation
Across
- 3. A country in the middle east with one of the highest urbanisation rates in the world
- 4. While many developing countries will remain mainly _____ for many years, they will increase their share of the global urban population to about 80% by 2050.
- 6. what type of people are more likely to migrate from rural to urban areas
- 8. What type of countries have the highest rates of urbanisation
- 11. More developed regions had __________ rates over 75% in 2011 compared to less than 50% in less developed regions.
- 13. What are very large cities known as?
- 14. An African country expected to be 50% urban by 2050
- 16. what is less than 3% of the worlds surface occupied by
Down
- 1. A typical middle eastern county with a high level of urbanisation
- 2. Providing ____________ such as water, housing and transport is one of the biggest challenges for rapidly urbanising countries.
- 4. Sixty million new ___________ are added to urban areas each year.
- 5. Natural population increase and rural to urban migration are __________ for urbanisation in the developing world.
- 7. Zero or _________ urban growth will affect some developed countries as population growth slows down or declines
- 9. Every _____, over 1 million people are added to urban populations.
- 10. an ancient emerging megacity in northwest china
- 11. By 2050, over 60% of the world’s population will be _______; currently the figure is around 52%.
- 12. ____ new city of one million people will be needed every five days until 2050 to house global population growth.
- 15. One of the least urbanised areas