This African metropolis is using low-carbon building designs in an enormous construction programme that is moving a large population from unplanned ‘shanty towns’ into more formal living arrangements.
Population
3.8
million
Area
554
km2
GDP
$26.7
billion
This data is a pre-COVID projection from 2019 for Addis Ababa City Administration, using data from city GPC inventories and Oxford Economics’ Global Cities Dataset.