*Passed 10M people in past 15 years population projections are for 2018. Flights per Day Population 37.5M 1,700 flights per day 0 0 Lagos* Kinshasa * Lagos, Nigeria Kinshasa, DR Congo and Lahore, Pakistan recently surpassed 10 million people but have the fewest flights per day among all megacities. To see why, let’s look at the world’s megacities (population is greater than 10 million people). Kinshasa is a surprising break from historical patterns, labeled by Harvard economist Edward Glaeser as “poor-country urbanisation.” When a metropolis the size of Paris has only 13 departing flights per day, it challenges my existing mental model of a city’s necessary ingredients, such as industry, tourism, or trade. Number of flights feels tangible, a signal of a city’s globalization, wealth, industry, and tourism, all wrapped into one figure. But these indicators often seem abstract. There are many ways to explain a city’s economy: GDP, trade, business investment, miles of paved roads, etc. Knowles writes, “Kinshasa can burn and most of the world doesn’t notice, because Kinshasa is only slightly better connected to the global economy than the North Pole.” The North Pole statement isn’t quite hyperbole: Barrow, Alaska, is the northernmost point in the US and home to 5,000 people-it too has about 10 departures per day. Average departures (excluding connections) per day in 2017, ICAO
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