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Ethiopia is a mostly agrarian rural country [1]: 135 with only its capital, Addis Ababa, having over 1 million people.However the urban population of Ethiopia has expanded dramatically, from 10.8 million in 2002 to 28 million in 2022, [2] a growth of 160%, which has resulted in the urban population as a percentage of the total population growing from 15% to 23% over the same time period. [2]
Rural-urban migration are leading factor on spreading urban crimes especially in Addis Ababa. It includes theft, smuggling and robbery. It includes theft, smuggling and robbery. It also affects housing, infrastructure, medical service, public schools and traffic policies as well as for social welfare.
In late 1990s, the Office for Revision of Addis Ababa's Master Plan (ORAAMP) and National Urban Planning Institute (NUPI) were launched to analyze the economic status of the city. The city covered 29% of Ethiopia's GDP (59.5 Billions $ in 2024) and 20% of national urban development as of 2022. Commercial Bank of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa
In 1986, master plan was drafted with cooperation of 45 Ethiopian professionals and 75 Italian experts, where 237 sectorial reports documented as references. [18] The objective of the plan was to develop balanced urban system and an integration with the surrounding areas to form metropolitan level area.
This led to more rural-urban migration in the newly liberated countries (Rakodi, 1997), and a stable decline in urbanization growth from 1950 to 1990 in South Africa. From figure 1 one can see that after the end of apartheid in 1990, the urbanization rate grow from 2.29% to 3.41%, while it continues to sink in the rest of Africa.
Population growth and urbanization were driven by migration from overpopulated rural areas, even though the majority of jobs available were still in the agricultural sector. [7] The 17.2 percent of Korea's population that were urban dwellers in 1949 were attributed largely to the presence of rural migrants. [2]
Pages in category "Urban planning in Ethiopia" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Urbanization over the past 500 years [12] A global map illustrating the first onset and spread of urban centres around the world, based on. [13]From the development of the earliest cities in Indus valley civilization, Mesopotamia and Egypt until the 18th century, an equilibrium existed between the vast majority of the population who were engaged in subsistence agriculture in a rural context ...