| Type | Working Paper - World Development |
| Title | Challenging the myths of urban dynamics in sub-Saharan Africa: The evidence from Nigeria |
| Author(s) | |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Publication (Day/Month/Year) | 2012 |
| Page numbers | 1382-1393 |
| URL | https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/geography/research/Research-Domains/Contested-Development/NigeriaUrbPottsOccPaper39.pdf |
| Abstract | ‘By the year 2010, more than half of Nigeria’s population will be living in urban centres . It is also estimated that by the year 2000 some 17 cities in Nigeria would have a population of one million people each. …. Lagos has a population of 15 million people in 2004’ (Centre for Human Settlements and Urban Development (CHSUD) for UN Habitat, 2005: 3). ‘The 2007 overall urbanization rate of the West and Central Africa region was 41.7 percent . Seven of its 25 nations had more than half their population living in urban areas. …. The West African subregion is projected to have an urban majority just before 2020’ (UN Habitat 2008: 11). ‘[for Nigeria in 2006] the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs suggested an urbanization rate [level] of 49% in 2006 compared to the Africapolis estimate of 30%’ (Africapolis Team, 2008, 100). ‘urbanization [levels] …. in West Africa … should reach 33.6% in 2010 and 34.6% in 2020’ (Africapolis Team, 2008, 105). |
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