Last week the UN released the 2014 revision of World Urbanization Prospects, a publication produced regularly by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs in the UN Secretariat. It makes for fascinating reading. Today, 54 percent of the global population lives in urban areas, compared with only 30 percent in 1950 and a projected 66 percent in 2050. There are now 28 mega-cities each with more than 10 million inhabitants, and three from Asia head the list: Tokyo (38 million), Delhi (25 million), and Shanghai (23 million). However, most people do not live in places such as these. Rather, nearly half of all urban dwellers are found in relatively small settlements of fewer than 500,000 residents. The world’s fastest-growing urban zones are medium-sized cities in Asia and Africa. Policy implications focus on equitable and sustainable growth of urban areas, and careful management of the spatial distribution of populations and internal migration. Myanmar has participated in some of these trend changes, and looks certain to engage with them more fully in the years ahead.