World Urbanization Prospects 2025: Summary of Results

Spatial Economics

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Urbanization is reshaping the global landscape of human life. Since 1950, the share of the world’s population living in urban areas has surged, and it is projected to continue rising through 2050. This report presents the highlights of the 2025 Revision of the World Urbanization Prospects and offers a concise yet powerful overview of this transformation, combining global and regional trends with country-level insights spanning the period from 1950 to 2050.

Part of the report is dedicated to the localised future projections of built-up area and population that were generated with the CRISP model VU helped develop.

Period	14 Nov 2025 → 27 Nov 2025

Media coverage

Title	Jakarta overtakes Tokyo as world’s most populous city, according to UN
Degree of recognition	International
Media name/outlet	the Guardian
Media type	Web
Country/Territory	Netherlands
Date	27/11/25
Description	One of many media news coverages of the UN report that includes the future projections of urban growth developed with the CRISP model
URL	https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/27/jakarta-overtakes-tokyo-most-populous-city-world
Persons	Eric Koomen, Thijmen van der Wielen, Jip Claassens

Title	World Urbanization Prospects 2025
Degree of recognition	International
Media type	Print
Country/Territory	United States
Date	14/11/25
Producer/Author	United nations
URL	https://www.un.org/development/desa/pd/world-urbanization-prospects-2025
Persons	Eric Koomen, Thijmen van der Wielen, Jip Claassens

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World Urbanization Prospects 2025: Summary of Results

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Projects

Estimating world-region specific parameters for a refined, statistics-based global urban and population allocation model.

Research output

Introducing the CRISP model to downscale future population projections