With and average annual growth of about 2.53%, Philippines’ Davao City landed the 87th spot in the World’s Top 100 Fastest Growing Cities and Urban Areas.
The research was made by City Mayors Foundation, which is based in London, United Kingdom and Freiburg Germany.
Fastest growing cities and urban areas (1 to 100)
|
Rank |
City/Urban area
|
Country |
Average annual growth
2006 to 2020, in % |
|
1
|
Beihai | China |
10.58
|
|
2 |
Ghaziabad | India |
5.20
|
|
3
|
Sana’a | Yemen |
5.00
|
|
4
|
Surat | India |
4.99 |
|
5
|
Kabul | Afghanistan |
4.74
|
|
6
|
Bamako | Mali |
4.45
|
|
7 |
Lagos | Nigeria |
4.44
|
|
8
|
Faridabad | India |
4.44
|
|
9
|
Dar es Salaam | Tanzania |
4.39 |
|
10
|
Chittagong | Bangladesh |
4.29
|
|
11
|
Toluca | Mexico |
4.25
|
|
12 |
Lubumbashi | Congo |
4.10
|
|
13
|
Kampala | Uganda |
4.03
|
|
14
|
Santa Cruz | Bolivia |
3.98 |
|
15
|
Luanda | Angola |
3.96
|
|
16
|
Nashik | India |
3.90
|
|
17 |
Kinshasa | Congo |
3.89
|
|
18
|
Nairobi | Kenya |
3.87
|
|
19
|
Dhaka | Bangladesh |
3.79 |
|
20
|
Antananarivo | Madagascar |
3.73
|
|
21
|
Patna | India |
3.72
|
|
22 |
Rajkot | India |
3.63
|
|
23
|
Conakry | Guinea |
3.61
|
|
24
|
Jaipur | India |
3.60 |
|
25
|
Maputo | Mozambique |
3.54
|
|
26
|
Mogadishu | Somalia |
3.52
|
|
27 |
Gujranwala | Pakistan |
3.49
|
|
28
|
Delhi | India |
3.48
|
|
29
|
Pune (Poona) | India |
3.46 |
|
30
|
Las Vegas | USA |
3.45
|
|
31
|
Addis Ababa | Ethiopia |
3.40
|
|
32 |
Indore | India |
3.35
|
|
33
|
Faisalabad | Pakistan |
3.32
|
|
34
|
Rawalpindi | Pakistan |
3.31 |
|
35
|
Brazzaville | Congo |
3.29
|
|
36
|
Peshawar | Pakistan |
3.29
|
|
37 |
Khulna | Bangladesh |
3.24
|
|
38
|
Suwon | Republic of Korea |
3.23
|
|
39
|
Karachi | Pakistan |
3.19 |
|
40
|
Asunción | Paraguay |
3.17
|
|
41
|
Lahore | Pakistan |
3.12
|
|
42 |
Asansol | India |
3.11
|
|
43
|
Riyadh | Saudi Arabia |
3.09
|
|
44
|
Dakar | Senegal |
3.06 |
|
45
|
Multan | Pakistan |
3.06
|
|
46
|
Valencia | Venezuela |
3.05
|
|
47 |
Jakarta | Indonesia |
3.03
|
|
48
|
Brasília | Brazil |
2.99
|
|
49
|
Port-au-Prince | Haiti |
2.98 |
|
50
|
Palembang | Indonesia |
2.94
|
|
51
|
Jidda | Saudi Arabia |
2.93
|
|
52 |
Accra | Ghana |
2.93
|
|
53
|
Agra | India |
2.93
|
|
54
|
Hyderabad | Pakistan |
2.91 |
|
55
|
Bandung | Indonesia |
2.90
|
|
56
|
Wenzhou | China |
2.90
|
|
57 |
East Rand (Ekurhuleni) | South Africa |
2.89
|
|
58
|
Wuhan | China |
2.87
|
|
59
|
Mosul | Iraq |
2.86 |
|
60
|
Amritsar | India |
2.85
|
|
61
|
Bursa | Turkey |
2.85
|
|
62 |
Manaus | Brazil |
2.83
|
|
63
|
Meerut | India |
2.83
|
|
64
|
Yaoundé | Cameroon |
2.80 |
|
65
|
Changsha | China |
2.80
|
|
66
|
Belém | Brazil |
2.79
|
|
67 |
Bangalore | India |
2.79
|
|
68
|
Heze | China |
2.78
|
|
69
|
Tijuana | Mexico |
2.77 |
|
70
|
Shantou | China |
2.77
|
|
71
|
Maceió | Brazil |
2.75
|
|
72 |
Algiers | Algeria |
2.74
|
|
73
|
Ahmadabad | India |
2.73
|
|
74
|
Lucknow | India |
2.72 |
|
75
|
Douala | Cameroon |
2.71
|
|
76
|
Austin | USA |
2.69
|
|
77 |
Bhopal | India |
2.69
|
|
78
|
Atlanta | USA |
2.64
|
|
79
|
Ujung Pandang | Indonesia |
2.63 |
|
80
|
Ludhiana | India |
2.63
|
|
81
|
Managua | Nicaragua |
2.62
|
|
82 |
Zhanjiang | China |
2.59
|
|
83
|
Karaj | Iran |
2.59
|
|
84
|
Jamshedpur | India |
2.59 |
|
85
|
Mecca | Saudi Arabia |
2.56
|
|
86
|
Vadodara | India |
2.55
|
|
87 |
Davao | Philippines |
2.53
|
|
88
|
Kanpur | India |
2.53
|
|
89
|
Ciudad Juárez | Mexico |
2.51 |
|
90
|
Tegucigalpa | Honduras |
2.51
|
|
91
|
Shenzhen | China |
2.51
|
|
92 |
Srinagar | India |
2.50
|
|
93
|
Coimbatore | India |
2.49
|
|
94
|
Abidjan | Côte d’Ivoire |
2.49 |
|
95
|
Yangon | Myanmar |
2.46
|
|
96
|
Dhanbad | India |
2.46
|
|
97 |
Rabat | Morocco |
2.45
|
|
98
|
Aleppo | Syria |
2.42
|
|
99
|
San José | Costa Rica |
2.42 |
|
100
|
Khartoum | Sudan |
2.41
|
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