World population to swell - UNFPA Report

Quoting executive director Toraya Obaid, UNFPA's Botswana Representative, Argentina Matavel, said that by 2030, urban population is expected to swell to almost five billion.
Matavel was speaking at the launch of the report whose theme is "Unleashing the Potential of Urban Growth" in Gaborone yesterday. She stated that all future population growths in developing countries would be in cities.

 
She said that many of the cities have pressing concerns of poverty, crime, lack of clean water and sanitation and sprawling slums.
The UNFPA envoy said that within a single generation, the urban population in Africa and Asia is set to double.