{"id": 819562, "name": "Urban area threshold", "unit": "people", "createdAt": "2024-01-26T11:04:46.000Z", "updatedAt": "2025-06-05T10:17:40.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "2018-2018", "datasetId": 6360, "shortUnit": "", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "minimum_inhabitants", "catalogPath": "grapher/un/2024-01-17/urban_agglomerations_definition/urban_agglomerations_definition#minimum_inhabitants", "descriptionShort": "The concept of an 'urban area' lacks a universal definition, with national variations based on minimum population thresholds or other metrics like population density, infrastructure, and pre-defined cities.", "type": "int", "dataChecksum": "13095919939139302944", "metadataChecksum": "-8068374187234813839", "datasetName": "World Urbanization Prospects Dataset - Number of Inhabitants to Define Urban Agglomerations", "datasetVersion": "2024-01-17", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "people", "numDecimalPlaces": 0}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"topicTagsLinks": ["Urbanization"]}, "descriptionKey": ["There is no consistent definition of what constitutes an 'urban area'. This is highly variable across countries. This data presents a given country's minimum threshold of inhabitants needed for it to be defined an 'urban area'. For many countries, there is no defined threshold based on inhabitants; other metrics such as population density, infrastructure, or even pre-defined cities may be used.", "Note that some countries with minimum inhabitant thresholds noted here also include additional qualities (such as population density) to be met."], "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 2018}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 16, "name": "Albania", "code": "ALB"}, {"id": 17, "name": "Algeria", "code": "DZA"}, {"id": 246, "name": "American Samoa", "code": "ASM"}, {"id": 21, "name": "Argentina", "code": "ARG"}, {"id": 23, "name": "Australia", "code": "AUS"}, {"id": 27, "name": "Bahrain", "code": "BHR"}, {"id": 28, "name": "Bangladesh", "code": "BGD"}, {"id": 4, "name": "Belgium", "code": "BEL"}, {"id": 32, "name": "Benin", "code": "BEN"}, {"id": 33, "name": "Bhutan", "code": "BTN"}, {"id": 34, "name": "Bolivia", "code": "BOL"}, {"id": 36, "name": "Botswana", "code": "BWA"}, {"id": 42, "name": "Cambodia", "code": "KHM"}, {"id": 43, "name": "Cameroon", "code": "CMR"}, {"id": 44, "name": "Canada", "code": "CAN"}, {"id": 174, "name": "Central African Republic", "code": "CAF"}, {"id": 171, "name": "China", "code": "CHN"}, {"id": 198, "name": "Taiwan", "code": "TWN"}, {"id": 170, "name": "Colombia", "code": "COL"}, {"id": 169, "name": "Comoros", "code": "COM"}, {"id": 165, "name": "Croatia", "code": "HRV"}, {"id": 164, "name": "Cuba", "code": "CUB"}, {"id": 162, "name": "Czechia", "code": "CZE"}, {"id": 143, "name": "Cote d'Ivoire", "code": "CIV"}, {"id": 167, "name": "Democratic Republic of Congo", "code": "COD"}, {"id": 161, "name": "Denmark", "code": "DNK"}, {"id": 200, "name": "Dominica", "code": "DMA"}, {"id": 159, "name": "Equatorial Guinea", "code": "GNQ"}, {"id": 157, "name": "Eritrea", "code": "ERI"}, {"id": 158, "name": "Ethiopia", "code": "ETH"}, {"id": 202, "name": "Fiji", "code": "FJI"}, {"id": 3, "name": "France", "code": "FRA"}, {"id": 203, "name": "French Polynesia", "code": "PYF"}, 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