World's Largest Cities by Population 1950 - 2035

Biggest city populations from 1950 to 2015, extended to the year 2035 based on UN World Urbanization projections.

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Data source: UN, Department of Economic and Social Affairs

[will_]

I’m a bit surprised that London was never on the list.

[Arkan]

One part of your statistics is metropolitan area population, another is city population, dafuq, mate? Moscow has 12 mil indeed but metropolitan area has 20 mil.

[joegrossman]

New York 1950: We're Number 1!

Tokyo: 私のビールを持ってて

[brijeshchandrakar]

Delhi figures include Delhi, Gurugram, Noida, Ghaziabad, etc. What you should do is also include population density. Dhaka and Tokyo are the most densly populated city.

[baukaalimgazy]

0:23
Tokyo 1962 - 18M
All Kazakhstan 2019 -18M

[NewSapaudia]

Data is kind of wrong. Mainly because the definition of a city differs from a source to another, some use urban areas and other stop at administrative boundaries. Using urban areas make more sense, I suggest looking at "Demographia
- World Urban Areas", according to which in 2018 the largest urban areas are:
1. Tokyo - 38M
2. Jakarta - 32M
3. Delhi - 27M
4. Manila - 24M
5. Seoul - 24M

[MattCrawley_Music]

I'm surprised London isn't there

[karabomafa]

China: I'd like to register 3 cities in the list Thank you

[colin.d]

Don't believe this, clearly not correct.

[elham]

Update this, add population density on the right side of every country chart.

[LiamRobinson]

This would have been more interesting if it had started say pre-WW2 to show the populations fluctuating from displacement, conscription, etc.

[magburner]

Not even 2m people living in London in the 1950's???

[SouvikDas]

I think this refers to the NCR (National Capital Region) not just the Capital Delhi

[Froylan_Floki]

You can clearly see Rio de Janeiro's population growth slowing down after the capital is moved to Brasilia. Also the fast industrialization of Sao Paulo and its metropolis

[mirfan]

I never saw yt channel growing so rapidly.good work guys

[ChemistryAtomistic]

Mexico City from the Center
Sao Paulo from the South
NYC from the North
Those are the capitals of the Western Hemisphere

[Felix-mpvj]

I would only use the population who really live in the city, and not in the entire metropolitan area...

[wincup]

Seoul should be there if Osaka is there (as the range of suburban is included). The population of city itself is (Osaka 2.7 million, and Seoul is 9.8 million) and even if suburban is included (Osaka is 8.8 million by 2022. November (it is called "Osaka-bu"), However, if you extend the range more, it reaches 22 million (called" Osaka metropolitan area). With the same logic, if you include the suburban of Seoul (it is called "Seoul metropolitan area"), it is over 25 million (25, 925, 799 in 2019), which is even bigger. I don't know what stats you are using but it seems you should apply the same standard at lesat.

[KorisnikBr]

there is no way any city in the world can hold 50 mil people.

[blossomsky]

New York has 8 million inhabitants and Moscow 12, 5 Million.

But for New York you counted here the Metropolitan area....