BetaBetaDataset
To provide an outlook of the transformation using demographic, economic and spatial data at the city level to understand the unique challenges associated with urban population decline.
Cities in ECA database comprises data from 5,549 cities in 15 countries of the Eastern Europe and Central Asia region, as defined by the World Bank Group, and from the United Kingdom and Germany.
Dataset entails the city population, urbanization, light convergence, economic density, population growth, migration and monotowns.
World Bank economists and statistical offices for demographic data, Geospatial Operations Support Team (GOST) for spatial data, and nighttime lights.