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Re:Shanghai sets population at 25M by cromon on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @06:14AM (#16008112)
London hasn't fallen in population since the 90s in fact it's been a steady rise since then(0). These are just the official stats, anecdotally there is noticeably a lot more people in London than when I was a teenager.

(0) https://www.trustforlondon.org.uk/data/londons-population-ov...

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Re:Shanghai sets population at 25M by peteretep on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @07:13AM (#16008270)
It's still the same as it was in 1939 though... And if you compare it with any Chinese city, London's slow re-population looks exceptionally sluggish.
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Re:Shanghai sets population at 25M by igravious on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @12:21PM (#16009545)
Where are the people going to come from? UK is already 83% urbanized: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS?year_...

Not many rurals gonna migrate to the big smoke and as you can tell from Brexit the Brits ain't too keen any more on inwards migration.

Let's not forget that from ~1825 to ~1925 London was the largest city in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_cities_through...

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Re:Shanghai sets population at 25M by justicezyx on Tuesday December 26, 2017 @12:54PM (#16009748)
Nice data, blind comparison without context is intentionally misleading
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Re:Shanghai sets population at 25M by peteretep on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @05:48AM (#16014042)
> Where are the people going to come from?

The rest of Europe.

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