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Although poverty remains a primarily rural phenomenon, urban poverty is becoming a severe, pervasive – and largely unacknowledged feature of urban life. The findings in this report show how...

The 21st century is the Century of the City. Cities contain both order and chaos. How can city planners and policymakers harmonize the various interests, diversity and inherent contradictions within...

The world's urban population now exceeds the world's rural population. What does this mean for the state of our cities, given the strain this global demographic shift is placing upon current urban...

What this new edition of State of the World’s Cities shows is that prosperity for all has been compromised by a narrow focus on economic growth. UN-Habitat suggests a fresh approach to prosperity...

Africa is in the midst of simultaneously unfolding and highly significant demographic, economic, technological, environmental, urban and socio-political transitions. Its economic performance is...

According to the latest United Nations population projections, 4.9 billion people are expected to be urban-dwellers in 2030. Although the world is urbanizing rapidly, the number of rural-dwellers is...

New publication which replace the Demographic Bulletin, published by CELADE since 1968. The Demographic Observatory provides information regarding population estimates and projections at national and...

This issue presents a set of spatial distribution and urbanization indicators from the database on spatial distribution and urbanization in Latin America for the period 1950-2000. It also includes a...

This edition of the Demographic Observatory presents a series of abridged life tables by sex, estimated and projected by five-year periods, which were prepared as inputs for national population...

In this issue, Demographic Observatory presents estimates and projections of the population of the 20 countries of Latin America, for the period 1950-2100. The figures contained in this publication...

In this issue, Demographic Observatory presents estimates and projections of the population of the 20 countries of Latin America, for the period 1950-2100. The figures contained in this publication...

The population and housing census provides, at regular intervals, information on the number and characteristics of the population of a Country, and on its housing stock. It is an essential source of...

In 2016, an estimated 54.5 per cent of the world’s population lived in urban settlements. By 2030, urban areas are projected to house 60 per cent of people globally and one in every three people will...

The analysis of urban development of the past twenty years presented in this maiden edition of the World Cities Report shows, with compelling evidence, that there are new forms of collaboration and...

The Demographic Observatory 2015 contains selected indicators from the 2015 revision of estimates and projections for the populations analysed. The figures contained in this publication are a revision...

Report of the Conference of the Twentieth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Pacific

The Demographic Observatory 2014 contains selected indicators from the 2014 revision of estimates and projections for the populations analysed. The figures contained in this publication are a revision...

This Country Profile on Moldova’s housing and land management sectors, prepared at the request of the Government of Moldova, is the 17th in the series. The Country Profile programme continues to focus...

This report examines both the developed and the developing world, and how the formal sector is unable to provide adequate employment opportunities for young people seeking gainful work. The inability...