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Today, we explore how Jakarta surpasses Tokyo as the world’s most populous city.
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The Big Sip
The take: Jakarta became the world's largest city because statisticians finally counted who was already there.
What happened: The UN's World Urbanization Prospects 2025 report, released November 18, ranked Jakarta first with 42 million residents—up from 33rd place and 11 million in 2018.
Why it matters: The 31-million-person jump came from a methodology change that now counts informal settlements called kampungs, where millions live without clean water, power, or official recognition.
What to watch: Whether other megacities see similar jumps as the UN applies its new grid-based method globally, and whether governments use the data to serve these communities or keep ignoring them.
The UN changed a formula and found 31 million people. Those people had been there the whole time.
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