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The world’s fastest growing cities
The tables provide assumed annual growth rates for cities and urban areas between 2006 and 2020. The assumptions are based on past growth/decline and forecasts by international and national statistics organisations. |
|
Rank
|
City/Urban area
|
Country
|
Average annual growth
2006 to 2020, in % |
|
1
|
Beihai | China |
10.58
|
|
2
|
Ghaziabad | India |
5.20
|
|
3
|
Sana'a | Yemen |
5.00
|
|
4
|
Surat | India |
4.99
|
|
5
|
Kabul | Afghanistan |
4.74
|
|
6
|
Bamako | Mali |
4.45
|
|
7
|
Lagos | Nigeria |
4.44
|
|
8
|
Faridabad | India |
4.44
|
|
9
|
Dar es Salaam | Tanzania |
4.39
|
|
10
|
Chittagong | Bangladesh |
4.29
|
|
11
|
Toluca | Mexico |
4.25
|
|
12
|
Lubumbashi | Congo |
4.10
|
|
13
|
Kampala | Uganda |
4.03
|
|
14
|
Santa Cruz | Bolivia |
3.98
|
|
15
|
Luanda | Angola |
3.96
|
|
16
|
Nashik | India |
3.90
|
|
17
|
Kinshasa | Congo |
3.89
|
|
18
|
Nairobi | Kenya |
3.87
|
|
19
|
Dhaka | Bangladesh |
3.79
|
|
20
|
Antananarivo | Madagascar |
3.73
|
|
21
|
Patna | India |
3.72
|
|
22
|
Rajkot | India |
3.63
|
|
23
|
Conakry | Guinea |
3.61
|
|
24
|
Jaipur | India |
3.60
|
|
25
|
Maputo | Mozambique |
3.54
|
|
26
|
Mogadishu | Somalia |
3.52
|
|
27
|
Gujranwala | Pakistan |
3.49
|
|
28
|
Delhi | India |
3.48
|
|
29
|
Pune (Poona) | India |
3.46
|
|
30
|
Las Vegas | USA |
3.45
|
|
31
|
Addis Ababa | Ethiopia |
3.40
|
|
32
|
Indore | India |
3.35
|
|
33
|
Faisalabad | Pakistan |
3.32
|
|
34
|
Rawalpindi | Pakistan |
3.31
|
|
35
|
Brazzaville | Congo |
3.29
|
|
36
|
Peshawar | Pakistan |
3.29
|
|
37
|
Khulna | Bangladesh |
3.24
|
|
38
|
Suwon | Republic of Korea |
3.23
|
|
39
|
Karachi | Pakistan |
3.19
|
|
40
|
Asunción | Paraguay |
3.17
|
|
41
|
Lahore | Pakistan |
3.12
|
|
42
|
Asansol | India |
3.11
|
|
43
|
Riyadh | Saudi Arabia |
3.09
|
|
44
|
Dakar | Senegal |
3.06
|
|
45
|
Multan | Pakistan |
3.06
|
|
46
|
Valencia | Venezuela |
3.05
|
|
47
|
Jakarta | Indonesia |
3.03
|
|
48
|
Brasília | Brazil |
2.99
|
|
49
|
Port-au-Prince | Haiti |
2.98
|
|
50
|
Palembang | Indonesia |
2.94
|
|
51
|
Jidda | Saudi Arabia |
2.93
|
|
52
|
Accra | Ghana |
2.93
|
|
53
|
Agra | India |
2.93
|
|
54
|
Hyderabad | Pakistan |
2.91
|
|
55
|
Bandung | Indonesia |
2.90
|
|
56
|
Wenzhou | China |
2.90
|
|
57
|
East Rand (Ekurhuleni) | South Africa |
2.89
|
|
58
|
Wuhan | China |
2.87
|
|
59
|
Mosul | Iraq |
2.86
|
|
60
|
Amritsar | India |
2.85
|
|
61
|
Bursa | Turkey |
2.85
|
|
62
|
Manaus | Brazil |
2.83
|
|
63
|
Meerut | India |
2.83
|
|
64
|
Yaoundé | Cameroon |
2.80
|
|
65
|
Changsha | China |
2.80
|
|
66
|
Belém | Brazil |
2.79
|
|
67
|
Bangalore | India |
2.79
|
|
68
|
Heze | China |
2.78
|
|
69
|
Tijuana | Mexico |
2.77
|
|
70
|
Shantou | China |
2.77
|
|
71
|
Maceió | Brazil |
2.75
|
|
72
|
Algiers | Algeria |
2.74
|
|
73
|
Ahmadabad | India |
2.73
|
|
74
|
Lucknow | India |
2.72
|
|
75
|
Douala | Cameroon |
2.71
|
|
76
|
Austin | USA |
2.69
|
|
77
|
Bhopal | India |
2.69
|
|
78
|
Atlanta | USA |
2.64
|
|
79
|
Ujung Pandang | Indonesia |
2.63
|
|
80
|
Ludhiana | India |
2.63
|
|
81
|
Managua | Nicaragua |
2.62
|
|
82
|
Zhanjiang | China |
2.59
|
|
83
|
Karaj | Iran |
2.59
|
|
84
|
Jamshedpur | India |
2.59
|
|
85
|
Mecca | Saudi Arabia |
2.56
|
|
86
|
Vadodara | India |
2.55
|
|
87
|
Davao | Philippines |
2.53
|
|
88
|
Kanpur | India |
2.53
|
|
89
|
Ciudad Juárez | Mexico |
2.51
|
|
90
|
Tegucigalpa | Honduras |
2.51
|
|
91
|
Shenzhen | China |
2.51
|
|
92
|
Srinagar | India |
2.50
|
|
93
|
Coimbatore | India |
2.49
|
|
94
|
Abidjan | Côte d'Ivoire |
2.49
|
|
95
|
Yangon | Myanmar |
2.46
|
|
96
|
Dhanbad | India |
2.46
|
|
97
|
Rabat | Morocco |
2.45
|
|
98
|
Aleppo | Syria |
2.42
|
|
99
|
San José | Costa Rica |
2.42
|
|
100
|
Khartoum | Sudan |
2.41
|
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