Million Cities in EUROPE 1950-2035

This bar chart race shows urban agglomerations with over one million urban population on Europe, and urbanization in percentage and total urban population, from 1950 to projected in 2035.

The geopgraphical Europe (natural continental border) is here defined as the part of Russia located west of Ural Mountains, small part of Kazakhstan west of the Ural River, the Greater Caucasus Mountain Range (which excludes Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan), the part of Turkey west of Bosporus Strait and the Sea of Marmara (but also including eastern part of Istanbul for this video).

Countries and their flags are depicted as they exist today.

Urban agglomerations that were million cities in the past, but then reduced to under one million:

Liverpool from 1950 to 1984.
Stockholm from 1965 to 1979, then again from 1983.
Dnipro from 1976 to 2012.
Donetsk from 1978 to 2005.
Perm from 1979 to 2003, then again from 2012.

The actual and projected population in Ukrainian cities after the invasion in 2022 is disputed. Many Ukrainians fled the country or had been internally displaced. But many also returned within the same year and many fled to the cities from the countryside. This video assume a medium scenario projection.

Data sources and projections: World Bank and UN

Music: Stellardrone - Gravitation (2018 Remix) https://soundcloud.com/stellardrone/gravitation-2018-remix
Gravitation (2018 Remix) By Stellardrone is licensed under a Creative Commons License.

Data visualization created with flourish.studio https://flourish.studio