The number of people who would live in cities in the year 2025 in Peru would amount to 35 million inhabitants, according to projections of the National Center for Strategic Planning (Ceplan).
El Ceplan reported that globally, more and more people are migrating from rural areas to urban areas, which has generated an explosive growth in cities that are now home to more than 50% of the world’s population.
By 2050, it is expected that seven out of ten people in the world will live in cities; in Latin America and the Caribbean it will be around 86% of its regional population. Under this framework, Peru ranks as the sixth country with the highest rate of urbanization in the region below Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and Brazil.
In the case of Peru It is expected that the 35 million projected by Ceplan represent between 85% and 88% of the total number of inhabitants in 2050.
“Recent studies reveal an intense urbanization process in Peru. In 1960, about 5 million people lived in urban areas, corresponding to 46% of the Peruvian population; in 2015 the figure rose to almost 24 million people, being 79% of the population and in 2020, the year the pandemic began, the number increased by three million; that is, 27 million people living in urban areas, a value that represented 80% of the Peruvian population,” reported Ceplan.
To this is added that the densest cities are the cities with the lowest income per capitaaccording to the technical sheets on trends published in the Ceplan National Prospective Observatory.
“So we have that, in 2015 in Latin America and the Caribbean, on average, cities with a high density were developed; having Peru with a record of between 10,000 to 15,000 inhabitants per km2”, the entity specified.
