Question

what does rapid increase in the population of the city show? the Industrial revolution class 11​

Answer 1

Looking at the list, I had never even heard of many of these cities. Where were the Kinshasas, the Delhis, the Dhakas and the Lagoses that have shot up the global rankings of the world’s largest cities?

A city’s population growth is usually measured by its annual average population growth rate. But city and national governments need to know the absolute change in population each year as this includes the number of newcomers (by birth or in migration) needing housing and public services.

Table 2 adds another apparent paradox. It lists the cities with the world’s largest annual increment in population from 2000 to 2020 – but many of these have relatively slow population growth rates.