Key Statistics: Trends in urban population and waste generation

Trends in urban population and waste generation

Urban population has grown from 288.36 million in the year 2000 to 440 million in  2017, indicating that the urban population is burgeoning at a rate of 2.68 per cent annually.

With increasing urban population, waste generation has also increased in tandem. In the past two decades, waste generation has increased at a CAGR of 9.63 per cent.