JAKARTA: Population growth and urbanisation are projected to add 2.5 billion people to the world’s urban population by 2050, with nearly 90% of the increase coming from Asia and Africa. In Southeast Asia, urbanisation is one of the major trends currently shaping its societies.
With a population of more than 630 million in 2015, more than 40% of whom have already urbanised at a rate of 5.6% per year in Laos, 4.6% in Cambodia, 3.9% in Myanmar and 3.3% in Indonesia, Asean is home to some of the largest and fastest growing cities in the world. A few of those cities are already some of the most populated metropolises in the world.