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Chart: Over Half the World Lives in Cities

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Over half the world lives in cities, and those cities are responsible for over 80% of global GDP. However, the high density of people, jobs, and assets which make cities so successful, also makes them vulnerable to the wide range of natural and manmade shocks and stresses increasingly affecting them today. Read more about how the World Bank is investing in urban reslience. 


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Tariq Khokhar

Global Data Editor & Senior Data Scientist

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