Table 9.2 (continued)
Category
Indicator
Unit
Data source
Threshold
Environmental 1
Water footprint
based on blue
water
m
3
/
(personÁyear)
The Water
Footprint
Network.
Mekonnen
and Hoekstra
(2011)
4000 km
3
/
(personÁyear)
(from planetary
boundaries)
10 Suicide rate
per 100,000
people
Various
sources
No threshold. This
is a maximization
indicator
Negative
contributor
11 University density per one million people,
considering
the ranking of
universities
Various
sources
No threshold. This
is a maximization
indicator
Positive
contributor
12 Number of
physicians
Per 1000
people
WHO
No threshold. This
is a maximization
indicator
Positive
contributor
Table 9.3 List of 18 megacities: Gaps between our estimated data and UN data
City
This paper
UN(2005)
1
Tokyo
29,274,100
35,621,544
2
Jakarta
22,935,700
8,794,539
3
Seoul
19,374,700
9,825,211
4
Mumbai
18,719,300
18,205,038
5
Sao Paulo
17,831,700
18,647,239
6
Mexico City
17,820,000
18,734,834
7
Delhi
17,797,400
19,493,483
8
Manila
17,751,400
10,760,844
9
Cairo
16,947,700
10,564,972
10
Kolkata
16,391,000
14,283,748
11
Osaka-Kobe
13,699,300
11,258,104
12
Shanghai
13,285,500
15,184,194
13
Buenos Aires
12,459,600
12,550,851
14
New York
11,848,500
18,727,009
15
Karachi
11,634,400
11,617,910
16
Dhaka
10,277,800
12,555,184
17
Moscow
10,233,700
10,418,464
18
Los Angeles
10,146,500
12,303,240
176
K. Mori