More than three-quarters (76%) of the world’s population now live in urban areas, according to the European Commission’s Joint Research Center’s (JRC’s) new Atlas of the Human Planet 2019 . The Atlas will be officially launched on Monday at the 10 th session of the World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi. The JRC is the European Commission’s science and knowledge service. The focus of the Atlas of the Human Planet 2019 is on key urbanization and human settlements figures and commented global analysis over 40 years’ time (1975 – 2015). With data spanning four decades and 239 countries and territories, the Atlas shows how humans have settled on Earth and urbanized the planet. Main findings include: The human population on Earth has nearly tripled since 1950. In 2015, 76.5% of this global population is accounted in settlements of the urban domain (5.6 billion people). This is up from 69% […]