Demographic primacy
The demographic primacy describes a high proportion of the population of a metropolis that is growing rapidly in developing countries in relation to the total population of the country. The demographic primacy goes hand in hand with a blatant size difference between a city with primacy and the next smallest center of the country, as well as a functional primacy .
Examples of a prime position are Cairo in Egypt, Bangkok in Thailand or Tehran in Iran. The prime position in the industrialized countries of France with Paris, Sweden with Stockholm or, as an extreme case, South Korea with Seoul is more advanced. In Seoul and its metropolitan area ( Sudogwon ), 49% of the population of South Korea ("degree of metropolitanization", see metropolitanization ) is already concentrated , the index of primacy is 2.8 (Seoul with 10.35 million inhabitants is 2.8 times as large like Busan with 3.68 million inhabitants; as of 2010).
Germany is not a state with a city that has a prime position, but individual federal states have prime cities or a high degree of metropolitanization. Examples of this are Hessen with Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main area, in which 50% of all Hessen live. If one saw the closely interwoven states of Brandenburg and Berlin as one federal state, over 60% of the population lived in Berlin. Around 25% of all Baden-Württemberg residents live in the Stuttgart metropolitan area.
literature
- Bronger, D. (2004): Metropolises, Megacities, Global Cities. The metropolitanization of the earth. Darmstadt.