Almost no one realizes this, myself included: > No matter how the values are tweaked, though, Lagos emerges as the world’s most populous city at some point bet

Almost no one realizes this, myself included: > No matter how the values are tweaked, though, Lagos emerges as the world’s most populous city at some point between now and 2100, in study after study. Changing the inputs affects only how soon and by how much. > A study published last year in the Lancet forecasts that Nigeria will become more populous than China by the end of the century > In three projections by the University of Toronto’s Global Cities Institute, Africa accounted for at least 10 of the world’s 20 most populous cities in 2100.