Almost 42 million people live in the Indonesia capital - Alamy Indonesia’s capital of Jakarta has overtaken Tokyo as the world’s most populous megacity, with almost 42 million inhabitants. The dense ...

The global population is growing, but do you know which city is biggest? These are the most populated cities in the world.

UN rankings updated using new criteria to better reflect the mass urban transformation driving a global shift in how we live—and the megacities emerging from it. A new United Nations report has ...

1 December 2025 – Our world is becoming increasingly urban. Cities are now home to 45 per cent of the global population of 8.2 billion, according to UN DESA’s World Urbanization Prospects 2025: ...

The world population is arguably the most important factor in shaping our planet's future. With more than 8 billion people currently living on Earth, population growth affects nearly every aspect of ...

The world has a new most populous city. Indonesia’s capital, Jakarta, tops a ranking that is increasingly dominated by Asia. It edged out Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, and Japan's Tokyo to earn the ...