{"id":589449,"date":"2026-08-11T01:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T01:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589449\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T01:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T01:34:14","slug":"road-deaths-in-the-united-states-have-fallen-much-more-slowly-than-in-other-rich-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/589449\/","title":{"rendered":"Road deaths in the United States have fallen much more slowly than in other rich countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-block__text\">Many cities across East Asia and Latin America have grown quickly over the last few decades. Since 1950, S\u00e3o Paulo\u2019s population has grown sixfold. Shanghai\u2019s nearly tenfold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-block__text\">This rapid growth is now ending. S\u00e3o Paulo is near its population peak, and Shanghai is projected to peak around 2050.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-block__text\">The fastest-growing megacities are now emerging elsewhere. In the chart, you can see various examples: Karachi in South Asia, and Dar es Salaam, Addis Ababa, and Luanda in Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-block__text\">Luanda, the capital of Angola, is an interesting case. It gets much less attention than well-established megacities, but as the chart shows, it&#8217;s on track to overtake S\u00e3o Paulo in about 20 years and Shanghai in about 60.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-block__text\">In this dataset from the European Commission&#8217;s Joint Research Centre, only 24 of today\u2019s 100 largest cities are projected to still be growing by 2100; of those, 12 are in Africa, and 5 are in South Asia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-block__text\">Of course, these rely on projections \u2014 often many decades ahead \u2014 and those come with a lot of uncertainty. Nonetheless, they provide a useful perspective on what the future of cities across the world might look like.<\/p>\n<p>Explore the full data for other cities in our interactive chart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many cities across East Asia and Latin America have grown quickly over the last few decades. Since 1950,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60],"class_list":["post-589449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}