Trend · rank 61 of 250

Urban population concentration

People and economic activity continue to concentrate in cities, straining housing, water, transport and public services and making urban service capacity a stronger determinant of national productivity and exposure.

Strategic InfrastructureEnergy, networks & climate resiliencecitiesdemographyresilience

Second pass: Carried forward from the first pass, where it was Urbanisation. Held by all three panel models.

Sensitivity and network position

Rank
61of 250
Sensitivity
10.0rank 104
Breadth
1of 20 scenarios High or above
PageRank
40.2rank 91
Eigenvector
5.7
Betweenness
42.4
Links
16trends at Moderate similarity or above
Composite
28.7

Attention over three years

How much this trend is read about on Wikipedia and searched for on Google, week by week, set against the typical trend in the list so that what moves every trend at once is taken out. 100 is this trend's own three-year average. The score measures public attention, which is not the same as the strength of the force: a trend can deepen unnoticed, and a news event can lift attention for a fortnight.

Now
81
Over a year
+1%Steady
Over three years
−21%
Peak
13129 Oct 2023
Sources
Bothagreement 0.82
Coverage
26languages · 57 nations

Trailing 4-week average. 100 is this trend’s three-year average.

By language

Wikipedia reading in each language edition where the trend’s pages are read enough to measure (26 of 28). Share is of all the readers counted.

LanguageShareNowOver a yearThree years
English48%91−1%
French8%77+1%
Japanese6%95+1%
Russian6%106+26%
German6%97+3%
Spanish4%81+0%
Portuguese3%76−13%
Chinese3%90+0%
Italian2%82+7%
Polish2%118+50%
Arabic2%67+7%
Persian1%82+11%
Korean1%64−15%
Ukrainian1%79+11%
Vietnamese1%80+5%
Dutch1%77−4%
Turkish1%133+91%
Indonesian1%114+33%
Hindi1%59+300%
Hebrew0%111+10%
Swedish0%92+4%
Bengali0%132+55%
Thai0%148+39%
Malay0%96+40%
Tamil0%98−22%
Afrikaans0%60−57%

By country

Google search interest over the three years, as a share of each country’s searching. 100 is the nation where interest is highest. The search terms are English, which favours countries that search in English.

Ethiopia

China

South Africa

United States

Nepal

Ghana

Kenya

Philippines

Uganda

India

Singapore

Tanzania

100

52

51

49

46

44

42

40

39

34

33

32

The 12 highest of 57 nations with a reading.

By region and G20 member

Attention to this trend inside each place, from Google searches made in its countries and Wikipedia reading in the languages mostly read there, averaged where both exist. Each line compares the trend with its own past in that place; the lines do not compare places.

Regions

PlaceRead fromNow90 days1 year3 yearsThree years
North AmericaGoogle in 2 countries + Wikipedia in English78−9%−4%−36%
EuropeGoogle in 8 countries + Wikipedia in German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch, Swedish79−18%+6%−34%
ChinaGoogle in 1 country99−25%+33%−13%
Indo-PacificGoogle in 9 countries + Wikipedia in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Thai, Malay87−2%−10%−25%
South AsiaGoogle in 3 countries + Wikipedia in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil79−11%+1%−38%
Gulf and Middle EastGoogle in 4 countries + Wikipedia in Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew93−1%+13%−23%
AfricaGoogle in 4 countries + Wikipedia in Afrikaans66+18%−40%−47%
Latin America and CaribbeanGoogle in 2 countries + Wikipedia in Spanish, Portuguese81−32%+2%−26%
Russia and EurasiaGoogle in 1 country + Wikipedia in Russian, Ukrainian67−20%+17%−45%

G20 members

PlaceRead fromNow90 days1 year3 yearsThree years
AustraliaGoogle82−2%−18%−26%
BrazilGoogle + Wikipedia in Portuguese69−14%−30%−39%
CanadaGoogle63−32%−13%−47%
ChinaGoogle99−25%+33%−13%
FranceGoogle + Wikipedia in French67−9%−7%−56%
GermanyGoogle + Wikipedia in German84−28%−0%−28%
IndiaGoogle + Wikipedia in Hindi, Bengali, Tamil80+1%−1%−37%
IndonesiaGoogle + Wikipedia in Indonesian88+10%−10%−18%
ItalyGoogle + Wikipedia in Italian78−8%−12%−34%
JapanGoogle + Wikipedia in Japanese99+15%−22%−4%
South KoreaGoogle + Wikipedia in Korean77−7%−19%−44%
MexicoGoogle112−56%+281%+53%
RussiaWikipedia in Russian1060%+26%−5%
Saudi ArabiaGoogle96+0%−11%−12%
South AfricaGoogle97+13%−23%−9%
TürkiyeGoogle + Wikipedia in Turkish107+9%+47%−12%
United KingdomGoogle79−21%+14%−29%
United StatesGoogle + Wikipedia in English79−5%−3%−37%

Relation to each scenario

A trend relates to a scenario when it changes how likely the scenario is, how hard it lands, or is itself sharply changed by it. Each score is the median of three scores given separately by the members of the model panel.

RelationScenarioFamily
4 · HighA major disaster disables the national economic core S07Energy, climate and resources
2 · LowHybrid coercion ends in an infrastructure blackout S04Geopolitical and security
2 · LowTwo breadbasket failures trigger a food availability crisis S06Energy, climate and resources
2 · LowA novel respiratory pathogen exceeds health surge capacity S10Health
1 · Very lowA disputed transfer of power breaks effective government S05Geopolitical and security
1 · Very lowA live outbreak proves rapid distributed pandemic defence S20 ↗Health
0 · Not relatedCritical trade divides into rival blocs S01Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedA global funding seizure reaches sovereign balance sheets S02Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedA regional war closes a globally important sea route S03Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedAn AI deployment step causes abrupt labour displacement S08Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA cryptographic breakthrough invalidates digital trust S09Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA creditor agreement releases fiscal capacity S11 ↗Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedA cross-regional market access compact redirects investment S12 ↗Economic and trade
0 · Not relatedA great-power agreement lowers economic security barriers S13 ↗Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedA verified Middle East settlement restores access S14 ↗Geopolitical and security
0 · Not relatedCheap firm clean power becomes available at scale S15 ↗Energy, climate and resources
0 · Not relatedA validated farming package raises water-efficient output S16 ↗Energy, climate and resources
0 · Not relatedAI-directed research produces a reproducible discovery step S17 ↗Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedA public service platform reaches inclusive operation S18 ↗Technology and infrastructure
0 · Not relatedAffordable preventive treatments reduce chronic illness S19 ↗Health

Similarity = 0.3 × shared tags (Jaccard) + 0.3 × likeness of scenario profiles (cosine) + 0.3 × likeness of names and descriptions (TF-IDF cosine) + 0.1 if in the same capability domain, cut into seven levels at 0.12, 0.22, 0.33, 0.45, 0.58, 0.72. Shown at Moderate and above.

SimilarityTrendThemeRank
5 · Very highUrban cooling infrastructureEnergy, networks & climate resilience151
4 · HighLocal & city government capacityState capacity & governance11
4 · HighInfrastructure ageing & maintenance backlogEnergy, networks & climate resilience39
3 · ModerateTelecom network resilienceEnergy, networks & climate resilience35
3 · ModerateWhole-of-society resilienceConflict & security43
3 · ModerateStrategic stockpiles & reservesEnergy, networks & climate resilience66
3 · ModerateDistributed powerEnergy, networks & climate resilience81
3 · ModerateWater treatment & desalinationEnergy, networks & climate resilience89
3 · ModerateFirm & black-start capacityEnergy, networks & climate resilience119
3 · ModerateDams, reservoirs & flood defenceEnergy, networks & climate resilience137
3 · ModerateClimate change & physical riskEnergy, networks & climate resilience138
3 · ModerateResilient construction & asset adaptationEnergy, networks & climate resilience194
3 · ModerateReliable energy access gapsEnergy, networks & climate resilience197
3 · ModerateEarly-warning coverageEnergy, networks & climate resilience204
3 · ModerateClimate-related population relocationEnergy, networks & climate resilience221
3 · ModerateRail & mass transit expansionEnergy, networks & climate resilience224