Think Hong Kong is crowded now? Wait until you see the place in 2025, when the population will have grown by 32.2 percent, according to Bloomberg’s latest predictions. Good luck getting five in for dim sum on a Sunday morning then!
Already in #1 place of Bloomberg’s list of the world’s top 40 most densely populated cities, Hong Kong is set to keep the accolade for at least the next 10 years, with a projected population of 8.1 million, equating to 76,985 people per square mile, by 2025. That’s pretty squished.
This is nearly twice the projected density of #2 city, Salvador Brazil, whose population growth is expected to increase by nearly triple that of Hong Kong’s.
Surprisingly, no Indian cities made the list, nor did any other Chinese cities. Those with the lowest projected population growth are Seoul-Incheon, South Korea, at 1.4 percent, St Petersburg, Russia, at 6.4 percent and Keihanshin, Japan, at 8.6 percent.
It must just be too cold to take your clothes off there.
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