| Where the megacities are
Thursday, April 04, 2002
Megacities with populations of 10 million inhabitants or more:
1950: New York, 12.3 million.
1975: Tokyo, 19.8 million; New York, 15.9 million; Shanghai, 11.4 million; Mexico City, 10.7 million; Sao Paulo, Brazil, 10.3 million.
2001: Tokyo, 26.5 million; Sao Paulo, 18.3 million; Mexico City, 18.3 million; New York, 16.8 million; Bombay (Mumbai), India; 16.5 million; Los Angeles, 13.3 million; Calcutta, India, 13.3 million; Dhaka, Bangladesh, 13.2 million; Delhi, India, 13 million; Shanghai, 12.8; Buenos Aires, Argentina, 12.1 million; Jakarta, Indonesia, 11.4 million; Osaka, Japan, 11 million; Beijing, 10.8 million; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 10.8 million; Karachi, Pakistan, 10.4 million; Manila, Philippines, 10.1 million.
2015: Tokyo, 27.2 million; Dhaka, 22.8 million; Bombay (Mumbai), 22.6 million; Sao Paulo, 21.2 million; Delhi, 20.9 million; Mexico City, 20.4 million; New York, 17.9 million; Jakarta, 17.3 million; Calcutta, 16.7 million; Karachi, 16.2 million; Lagos, Nigeria, 16 million; Los Angeles, 14.5 million; Shanghai, 13.6 million; Buenos Aires, 13.2 million; Manila, 12.6 million; Beijing, 11.7 million; Rio de Janeiro, 11.5 million, Cairo, Egypt, 11.5 million; Istanbul, Turkey, 11.4 million; Osaka, 11 million; Tianjin, China, 10.3 million.
Source: United Nations Population Division.
© 2002 Scripps Howard News Service
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