3 cities in India among the fastest growing

Image: A view of the India Gate in New Delhi.
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About 52 per cent of the world's population currently live in urban areas; by 2025 this should increase to 58 per cent, says The Economist.

Nearly all this growth will take place in emerging-market economies, particularly Asia, as migrants from the countryside move in search of jobs, it says.

Let's have a look at some of the fastest-growing cities in the developing world.

NOTE: Courtesy, The Economist

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3 cities in India among the fastest growing

Image: Tourists visit the The Bahai House of Worship known as the 'Lotus Temple' in New Delhi.
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New Delhi

Country: India

Annual average population increase (1995-2010): 640,000

Projected population increase (2010-2025): 410,000

Population in 2010: 22.2 million

Rank: 1

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3 cities in India among the fastest growing

Image: A commuter jumps between cars on a train at the Kamalapur Railway Station, the largest in the country, in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
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Dhaka

Country: Bangladesh

Annual average population increase (1995-2010): 410,000

Projected population increase (2010-2025): 408,000

Population in 2010: 14.6 million

Rank: 2

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3 cities in India among the fastest growing

Image: The first sighting of Mountain Gorilla babies in Bukima, Congo.
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Kinshasa

Country: Congo

Annual average population increase (1995-2010): 280,000

Projected population increase (2010-2025): 410,000

Population in 2010: 8.8 million

Rank: 3

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3 cities in India among the fastest growing

Image: A visitor poses for a picture in front of Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai.
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Mumbai

Country: India

Annual average population increase (1995-2010): 396,000

Projected population increase (2010-2025): 380,000

Population in 2010: 20 million

Rank: 4

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3 cities in India among the fastest growing

Image: A man sells spices at a market in Karachi.
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Karachi

Country: Pakistan

Annual average population increase (1995-2010): 370,000

Projected population increase (2010-2025): 310,000

Population in 2010: 13.1 million

Rank: 5

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3 cities in India among the fastest growing

Image: Children playing soccer are silhouetted at sunset in Nigeria's main city of Lagos, Nigeria.
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Lagos

Country: Nigeria

Annual average population increase (1995-2010): 305,000

Projected population increase (2010-2025): 350,000

Population in 2010: 10.6 million

Rank: 6

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3 cities in India among the fastest growing

Image: A horse-cart passes in front of the Queen Victoria Memorial in Kolkata.
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Kolkata

Country: India

Annual average population increase (1995-2010): 240,000

Projected population increase (2010-2025): 301,000

Population in 2010: 15.6 million

Rank: 8

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3 cities in India among the fastest growing

Image: Visitors walk through the Lujiazui Financial Area in Shanghai.
Photographs: Aly Song/Reuters

Shanghai

Country: China

Annual average population increase (1995-2010): 430,000

Projected population increase (2010-2025): 230,000

Population in 2010: 16.6 million

Rank: 9

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3 cities in India among the fastest growing

Image: Tourists ride on a 'Kalesa', a horse-drawn carriage, in Manila's historic Intramuros also known as Walled City.
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Manila

Country: The Philippines

Annual average population increase (1995-2010): 140,000

Projected population increase (2010-2025): 230,000

Population in 2010: 16.6 million

Rank: 9

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3 cities in India among the fastest growing

Image: A paratrooper performs in Lahore.
Photographs: Mohsin Raza/Reuters

Lahore

Country: Pakistan

Annual average population increase (1995-2010): 170,000

Projected population increase (2010-2025): 205,000

Population in 2010: 7.1 million

Rank: 10

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3 cities in India among the fastest growing

Image: Houses are seen at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania's Hie district.
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Dar es Salaam

Country: Tanzania

Annual average population increase (1995-2010): 190,000

Projected population increase (2010-2025): 105,000

Population in 2010: 3.3 million

Rank: 11

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3 cities in India among the fastest growing

Image: An aerial view show Ho Chi Minh City.
Photographs: Nguyen Huy Kham/Reuters

Ho Chi Minh City

Country: Vietnam

Annual average population increase (1995-2010): 140,000

Projected population increase (2010-2025): 180,000

Population in 2010: 6.2 million

Rank: 12

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3 cities in India among the fastest growing

Image: Men ride camels near the site of 44 Nubian pyramids of kings and queens in the ruins of the ancient city of Meroe next to Begrawiya, near Shendi in the River Nile state of Sudan.
Photographs: Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters

Khartoum

Country: Sudan

Annual average population increase (1995-2010): 120,000

Projected population increase (2010-2025): 180,000

Population in 2010: 5.2 million

Rank: 13

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3 cities in India among the fastest growing

Image: A hippopotamus yawns at sunset in Kenya's Tsavo West National Park, 280km east of Kenya's capital Nairobi.
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Nairobi

Country: Kenya

Annual average population increase (1995-2010): 110,000

Projected population increase (2010-2025): 190,000

Population in 2010: 3.5 million

Rank: 14

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