Global urbanization is growing at a faster rate than never before. By 2050 23% of the population will live in urban areas with more than 10 million people. A timeline history of mass migration of populations from rural to urban areas from 1960 to 2017. In the timeline, we see estimates from the UN World Urbanization Prospects on the number of people globally who live in urban and rural areas. In 2017, 4.1 billion people were living in urban areas. This video shows the race for urbanization in between countries from 1961-2017. Data is considered for countries from the modern era.















