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Tokyo Metro's population (2016) is 13 million. So it grew by 13% in ~16 years, or about 0.88% per year. Whether or not you consider that "a lot", it's not an e
by timr 10y ago
Tokyo Metro's population (2016) is 13 million. So it grew by 13% in ~16 years, or about 0.88% per year.
Whether or not you consider that "a lot", it's not an exceptional number. It's also impossible to know how that translates to "new units" without knowing a lot of other factors.
- Retric 10y agoIt gets harder not easer to add housing as population increases so the % growth is almost meaningless. Also you can look at utilization numbers from 2000 to see it really is new housing and largely from replacing smaller buildings with larger ones which means each building starts with the deficit that it needs to replace the old buildings population.