{"id": 820000, "name": "Number of countries with minimum urban population threshold", "unit": "countries", "createdAt": "2024-02-01T10:38:47.000Z", "updatedAt": "2025-06-05T10:18:23.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "2018-2018", "datasetId": 6371, "shortUnit": "", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "minimum_inhabitants", "catalogPath": "grapher/un/2024-01-17/urban_agglomerations_definition_count/urban_agglomerations_definition#minimum_inhabitants", "descriptionShort": "The number of countries which have adopted a given minimum population threshold (number of inhabitants) for classification of an 'urban area'.", "type": "int", "dataChecksum": "10470645058663338065", "metadataChecksum": "6290424184028255044", "datasetName": "World Urbanization Prospects Dataset - Number of countries with a given minimum urban population threshold", "datasetVersion": "2024-01-17", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "countries", "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 the number of countries with given minimum thresholds of inhabitants needed for an area 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 require additional qualities (such as population density) to be met."], "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 2018}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 369057, "name": "1,000 inhabitants", "code": null}, {"id": 369062, "name": "1,500 inhabitants", "code": null}, {"id": 369052, "name": "10,000 inhabitants", "code": null}, {"id": 369059, "name": "100,000 inhabitants", "code": null}, {"id": 369058, "name": "150 inhabitants", "code": null}, {"id": 369047, "name": "2,000 inhabitants", "code": null}, {"id": 369048, "name": "2,500 inhabitants", "code": null}, {"id": 369064, "name": "20,000 inhabitants", "code": null}, {"id": 369060, "name": "200 inhabitants", "code": null}, {"id": 369056, "name": "3,000 inhabitants", "code": null}, {"id": 369053, "name": "30,000 inhabitants", "code": null}, {"id": 369051, "name": "300 inhabitants", "code": null}, {"id": 369049, "name": "4,000 inhabitants", "code": null}, {"id": 369061, "name": "400 inhabitants", "code": null}, {"id": 369050, "name": "5,000 inhabitants", "code": null}, {"id": 369063, "name": "50,000 inhabitants", "code": null}, {"id": 369054, "name": "500 inhabitants", "code": null}, {"id": 369055, "name": "600 inhabitants", "code": null}, {"id": 369046, "name": "9,000 inhabitants", "code": null}, {"id": 37949, "name": "No minimum population threshold", "code": null}]}}, "origins": [{"id": 366, "titleSnapshot": "World Urbanization Prospects Dataset - Definition of the Urban Areas", "title": "World Urbanization Prospects Dataset", "description": "This dataset is derived from the World Urbanization Prospects, providing comprehensive data on global urbanization trends, including population figures, urban and rural population distributions, and projections for future urban growth.", "producer": "United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division", "citationFull": "United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition.", "attributionShort": "United Nations", "urlMain": "https://population.un.org/wup/Download/", "urlDownload": "https://population.un.org/wup/Download/Files/WUP2018-DataSource-UrbanPopulation.xls", "dateAccessed": "2024-01-17", "datePublished": "2018", "license": {"url": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/", "name": "CC BY 3.0 IGO"}}]}