The present level of urbanisation in world falls under which of following categories?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → 50 to 75 percent
At present 54 per cent (2017) of the world’s population lives in urban settlements, which falls in the 50 to 75 per cent category.
Note: This chapter is not there in the latest NCERT textbook (2025-26). It was there in the pre-rationalised NCERT (Fundamentals of Human Geography, ‘Human Settlements’), and hence this question has been picked from the pre-rationalised NCERT. The chapter left the current book, but the 54 per cent stayed in NTA’s notes. One table, one easy mark.
NCERT (Pre-rationalised): “Urban Settlements Rapid urban growth is a recent phenomenon. Until recent times, few settlements reached the population size of more than a few thousand inhabitants. The first urban settlement to reach a population of one million was the city of London by around. A.D. 1810 By 1982 approximately 175 cities in the world had crossed the one million population mark. Presently 54 per cent of the world’s population lives in urban settlements compared to only 3 per cent in the year 1800 (Table 10.1).…”
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