ABSTRACT
The urban population represents one of the most important aspects of the city. The nature and composition of urban populations are reflected in their demographic and socio-economic characteristics and also in the range of economic activities in which the populations are engaged. The significance of the pattern of variation of the socio-economic characteristics over space is tested via a standard one-way analysis of variance. While sociological analysis has dominated studies of urban populations, there is a growing body of literature dealing with its spatial distribution and this had led to an examination of the spatial distribution of urban population densities. The growth of population in cities constitutes the most important phenomenon of urbanization in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The age cohort-survival method evaluates the population of a given area by age groups according to the pattern of fertility and mortality that has been observed.
