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Compendium of Human Settlements Statistics

  • Author: UN
  • Publication date: February 1996
  • Page count: 528
  • Language(s) in this book: English
  • Sales number: 95.XVII.11

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The world is rapidly becoming urbanized with one half of its population expected to reside in urban areas by the year 2005 and more than three fifths by 2025. This Compendium presents human settlements statistics for 243 countries or areas and 338 cities in five general fields: population, land use, infrastructure and services, housing and crime. It consists of 30 tables and over 160 graphs highlighting its main findings.