Urban Issues and Challenges Quiz

Urbanisation is the process by which an increasing % of a country’s population live in towns and cities.

• True

• False

The global population was .......... billion people in 2020.

Today more than ...% of the world's population live in urban areas.

• 30

• 40

• 50

• 60

According to the UN, how many megacities are there in the world?

• 31

• 26

• 14

• 34

A megacity is a city with over ... million people living in it.

The highest rates of urbanisation are in LICs, such as in Asia and Africa.

• True

• False

The highest rates of urbanisation are in HICs

• True

• False

A majority of the population still live in rural areas and so the rate of rural-urban migration is high in...

• HICs

• LICs

A majority of the population still live in rural areas so the rate of urbanisation is high in...

• HICs

• LICs

The lower rates of urbanisation occur in HICs, such as in Europe, North America and Oceania.

• True

• False