Blog 8: Global Urbanization & Global development and Inequality.
After analyzing and looking at the snapshot global urbanization from 1950 and 2014 its interesting to see how world’s population has grown over time. In 1950, the highest population country and city was New York City in the U. S. In 2014, the highest population country and city is Tokyo, Japan. This is interesting because Tokyo, japan was the second highest country in 1950 and reached the highest in 2014, while New York City decreased to the 9 th place in 2014. Although New York, U.S is in the 9 th place it still has a high population of 18.6 million. As for Tokyo, Japan they have a population of 37.8 million in 2014, 25.5 million difference from Tokyo japan in 2014 than New York City, U.S in 1950. Overall, the populations in all countries in 2014 show higher number than those in 1950. After analyzing the global development and inequality snapshot of 2011, it confirmed that poor countries suffer a lot. Those with fewer income such as Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Myanma...