This report presents the highlights of the 2011 Revision of World Urbanization Prospects including the official United Nations estimates and projections of urban and rural populations for major areas, regions and countries of the world and of all urban agglomerations with 750,000 inhabitants or more in 2011. The data in this Revision are consistent with the total populations estimated and projected according to the medium variant of the 2010 Revision of the United Nations global population estimates and projections, published in World Population Prospects: The 2010 Revision. This Revision updates and supersedes previous estimates and projections published by the United Nations.
1. Key findings of the 2011 revision -- 2. Urbanization and natural hazards -- 3. Procedures to estimate and project the population of urban areas and urban agglomerations -- 4. Data sources of natural disaster hotspots -- 5. Sources of data on urban and city population.

xiv, 302 p. : graphs, maps, tables

Includes bibliographical references (p.109).