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World Development Indicators: Urban development
7 World Development Indicators on urban development, annual, from 1960 where the World Bank has them, for all reporting economies and aggregates. Includes: Urban land area (sq. km); PM2.5 air pollution, mean annual exposure (micrograms per cubic meter); PM2.5 air pollution, population exposed to levels exceeding WHO guideline value (% of total).
Definitions and method
Compiled by the World Bank in World Development Indicators from official national and international sources, listed against each indicator by the World Bank. Some series come from third parties, so their own terms may apply beyond the World Bank's CC BY 4.0: check the source named for the indicator before redistributing. Sources in this set include: World Urbanization Prospects 2018, United Nations (UN); Low Elevation Coastal Zone (LECZ) Urban-Rural Population and Land Area Estimates, Version 2, Center For International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) - Columbi; Global Burden of Disease Study 2023 (GBD 2023) Air Pollution Exposure Estimates and Risk Curves 1990-2023, GBD Collaborator Network; Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 (GBD 2017), Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME); FAO population estimates, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Cells with no value are not stored.
| Indicator | Code | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Urban land area (sq. km) | AG.LND.TOTL.UR.K2 | — |
| PM2.5 air pollution, mean annual exposure (micrograms per cubic meter) | EN.ATM.PM25.MC.M3 | — |
| PM2.5 air pollution, population exposed to levels exceeding WHO guideline value (% of total) | EN.ATM.PM25.MC.ZS | — |
| Population density (people per sq. km of land area) | EN.POP.DNST | — |
| Population in largest city | EN.URB.LCTY | — |
| Population in the largest city (% of urban population) | EN.URB.LCTY.UR.ZS | — |
| Population in urban agglomerations of more than 1 million | EN.URB.MCTY | — |