Module 1

Question 1

How much are cities in the tropic going to grow?

Answer 1

-Cities in the tropics will grow strongly in the coming decades: overall, the number of new inhabitants is expected to increase by 3 times the population of Europe today in the next 30 years

Question 2

Which regions are not urbanized?

Answer 2

While in Africa and Asia a majority of the population still lives in the non-urbanised countryside, the urban population is growing much faster, through higher birth rates and internal migration, and is expected to exceed the rural population by 2050