Effects Of Urbanization In Ethiopia

Ethiopia, managing urban growth has become one of the most important challenge of the people living on the periphery of the city are mostly rural migrants who have come to the city in search of employment. In rural areas, where the agriculture is most common, the activity often tends to be seasonal and therefore unreliable. The problem that needs to be addressed is, hence, the creation of employment opportunities away from the major urban area. A number of small towns and cities that are closer to the hinter land could develop as potential sources of employment for rural people. This would reduce the burden on large cities and create an alternative source of work, there by addressing the problem of both unemployment and sprawl. In addition,

Statistically, urbanization reflects an interesting proportion of the population living in settlements defined as urban, primarily through the net rural to urban migrations. The level of urbanization is the percentage of the total population living in the town and cities while the rate of urbanization is the rate at which it grows. According to UNFPA, the first urbanization were took place in North America and Europe over two countries, from 1750 to 1950 an increase from 10 to 52 percent urban and from 15 to 423 million urbanites. In second wave of urbanization, in the less developed regions, the number of urbanites will go from 309 million in 1950 to 3.9 billion in 2030. In those 80 years, these countries will change from 18 percent to some 56 percent urban. At the beginning of the 20th century, the now developed regions had more than twice as many urban dwellers as the less developed (150 million to 70 million). Despite much lower levels of urbanization, the developing countries now have 2.6 times as many urban dwellers as the developed regions (2.3 billion to 0.9 billion). This gap will widen quickly in the next few decades. At the world level, the 20thcentury saw an increase from 220 million urbanites in 1900 to 2.84 billion in

Cities are the main beneficiaries of globalization, the progressive integration of the world’s economics. People follow jobs, which follow investment and economic activities. Most are increasingly concentrated in and around dynamic urban areas, large and small. However, very few developing country cities generate enough jobs to meet the demands of their growing populations. Moreover, the benefits of urbanization are not equally enjoyed by all segments of the population. According to UN State of the World Population 2014 report, the majority of people worldwide will be living in cities for the first time in history recording due to referred as the arrival ‘’ tipping point’’. In 2014, the level of urbanization significantly different across the countries because of high levels of urbanization at 80%, categorized Latin America and Caribbean and North America. Europe, with 73% of its population living in urban areas is predictable to be over 80% urban by 2050. Africa and Asia remain mostly rural with 40% and 48% of their respective population living in urban areas (UN, 2014). Forthcoming decades, the level of urbanization is predictable to increase in all countries as referred to as major areas, in case of this Africa and Asia urbanizing faster than the rest. Ultimately, these two countries which are expected to reach 56% and 64 % urban by mid-century,