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Table 7.2
The world's largest cities in 2000
2000
City
population
3
000s
(% change
1975-2000)
Country
population
000s
(% change
1975-2000)
GDP $000s
(% change
1975-2000)
GDP per
capita $
(% change
1975-2000)
Tokyo
29,896 (30.0)
126,737 (13.6)
2,589,320 (204)
20,431 (80.0)
New York
24,719 (44.1)
270,561 (25.2)
7,394,598 (210)
27,331 (67.8)
Seoul
20,674 (275)
46,898 (30.7)
624,582 (559)
13,317 (421)
Mexico City
19,081 (68.3)
98,553 (62.0)
655,910 (209)
6665 (29.5)
Sao Paulo
17,396 (73.2)
169,897 (56.0)
926,918 (203)
5459 (30.2)
Manila
16,740 (310)
79,376 (78.5)
181,886 (201)
2291 (12.9)
Los Angeles
15,807 (76.4)
270,561 (25.2)
7,394,598 (210)
27,331 (67.8)
Mumbai
15,769 (223)
991,691 (63.3)
1,803,172 (3.31)
1818 (202)
Djakarta
15,086 (284)
207,429 (58.9)
628,753 (3.2)
3031 (201)
Osaka
15,039 (−3.0)
126,737 (13.6)
2,589,320 (204)
20,431 (80.0)
Delhi
13,592 (309)
991,691 (63.3)
1,803,172 (3.31)
1818 (202)
Kolkata
12,619 (60.2)
991,691 (63.3)
1,803,172 (3.31)
1818 (202)
Buenos Aires
12,297 (44.7)
36,235 (39.2)
334,314 (57.8)
9219 (13.2)
Shanghai
11,960 (49.5)
1,252,704 (36.6)
4,082,513 (509)
3259 (372)
Cairo
11,633 (38.4)
66,050 (78.7)
140,546 (339)
2128 (89.8)
World [1998]
5,907,680 (45.3)
33,725,631 (202)
5709 (39.4)
Sources:
City Population Data (Chandler 1987; Le Gales 2002); Country Population,
GDP and GDP per Capita Data (Maddison 2006; McCann and Acs 2011).
measured relative to their national productivity levels. In Table 7.5 we
repeat this exercise after excluding all US cities. The first three columns of
Table 7.5 also exclude cities located in the former transition economies, as
well as in Mexico and Turkey. The second three columns include all OECD
countries. If we consider the first three columns of Table 7.5 we see that 12
of the cities are the same as those in the second three columns of Table 7.4.
However, the top fifteen cities in terms of relative per capita productivity in
the first three columns of Table 7.5 are smaller on average than the top 15
absolute productivity non-US cities. If we now consider the second three
columns of Table 7.5, however, we see that the rankings change dramati-
cally, and are now dominated by cities in the poorer nations of the OECD,
some of which are very large cities indeed. Ten out of the top 15 relative
productivity cities are located in either former transition economies or
developing countries members of the OECD. As such, the productivity
advantages of very large cities appear to be relatively more important for
lower income and transition economies than for the most advanced ones.
