which cities are rising, and which are fading

1. 1 Luanda Angola 60%
2. 2 Dar es Salaam Tanzania 50%
3. 3 Addis Ababa Ethiopia 47%
4. 4 Dubai UAE 42%
5. 5 Kinshasa DR Congo 37%
6. 6 Karachi Pakistan 35%
7. 7 Nairobi Kenya 31%
8. 8 Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire 30%
9. 9 Johannesburg South Africa 30%
10. 10 Dhaka Bangladesh 29%
11. 11 Lahore Pakistan 28%
12. 12 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam 25%
13. 13 Shanghai China 24%
14. 14 Bengaluru India 23%
15. 15 Bangkok Thailand 22%
16. 16 Riyadh Saudi Arabia 22%
17. 17 Bogotá Colombia 19%
18. 18 Cairo Egypt 19%
19. 19 Baghdad Iraq 18%
20. 20 Delhi India 16%
21. 21 Jakarta Indonesia 16%
22. 22 Khartoum Sudan 15%
23. 23 Lagos Nigeria 15%
24. 24 Lima Peru 14%
25. 25 Sydney Australia 13%
26. 26 Tehran Iran 13%
27. 27 London UK 12%
28. 28 Madrid Spain 12%
29. 29 Shenzhen China 11%
30. 30 Beijing China 10%
31. 31 Mumbai India 10%
32. 32 Manila Philippines 9%
33. 33 Istanbul Türkiye 8%
34. 34 Moscow Russia 8%
35. 35 Santiago Chile 8%
36. 36 Berlin Germany 6%
37. 37 Kolkata India 6%
38. 38 Los Angeles USA 5%
39. 39 Seoul South Korea 5%
40. 40 Singapore Singapore 5%
41. 41 Buenos Aires Argentina 2%
42. 42 Chicago USA 2%
43. 43 Rio de Janeiro Brazil 2%
44. 44 New York USA 1%
45. 45 Paris France 1%
46. 46 São Paulo Brazil 1%
47. 47 Tokyo Japan 1%
48. 48 Hong Kong China 0%
49. 49 Mexico City Mexico −6%
50. 50 Chengdu China −9%

Source: UN DESA, World Urbanization Prospects 2025 (cities by the Degree of Urbanisation) · 2025 data. The UN counts each city’s dense core (areas above 1,500 people per km²), which can shrink while suburbs grow; for Chengdu and Mexico City, national census figures differ. Hong Kong shows its largest UN city, Tamar. 2025 values are UN estimates.