Infrastructure & Cities

Asian Green City Index

February 15, 2011

Asia

February 15, 2011

Asia
Our Editors

The Economist Intelligence Unit

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The future of Asia is in its cities. Although still one of the less urbanised continents, the share of the Asian population living in urban areas has grown from 32% in 1990 to 42% in 2010, according to the United Nations Population Division. By 2026, the United Nations forecasts that half of Asians will be city dwellers. The sheer size of the continent’s population makes the task of managing this urbanisation especially daunting. For the last five years, Asia has added 37 million urban residents each year, more than 100,000 per day, to its growing total. Asia currently has seven of the world’s 10 most populous urban areas, and McKinsey and Co, a consultancy, predicts that by 2025, China alone will have 221 cities with more than a million inhabitants. In contrast, Europe currently has just 25. 

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