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Currently, 81.2% of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean live in urban areas.

Source: UNDESA- Data 2018

By 2050 89% of the population in Latin America and the Caribbean will live in urban areas.

Source: UNDESA- Data 2018

Latin America and the Caribbean is the region with the largest proportion of the population concentrated in megacities: of the total population of the region in 2018, 14.2% resided in the six cities with 10 million inhabitants or more.

Source: UNDESA- The world 's cities in 2018 data booklet

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